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Truss Firm Expands Into Nevada

Builders Choice, Inc., Hughson, Ca., has begun construction of an $8 million wood truss plant in Silver Springs, Nv.

The 29-acre complex, expected to open in spring 2006, will include a 142,000-sq. ft. fabrication facility, a 7,000sq. ft. shop, and a 6,000-sq. ft. office. It will employ from 200 to 300.

Owners Don Ogden and Phil Overholtzer selected the site because of Silver Springs' strategic location to highgrowth areas.

Home Depot Thief Steals Wheels

When police arrested Phillip Anthony Moreno for allegedly trying to steal a power saw at a Home Depot in Barstow, Ca., they didn't expect him to drive away with their squad car.

Moreno, 44, aparolee with a previous $200,000 warrant for his arrest. is disabled and confined to a wheelchair. After the Oct. 4 arrest, he was handcuffed and his wheelchair was placed in the squad car's trunk. While officers were searching his car, Moreno shed the handcuffs, crawled through the car's security barrier into the front seat, and drove away.

Police later found the squad car, without the wheelchair. Moreno is still at large.

Ex-Boise Forests Up For Sale

Forest Capital Partners is trying to resell at sealed-bid auction five parcels of timberland in Southern Oregon and Northern California that it acquired last year from Boise

Cascade, Boise, Id.

The timber management firm, with offices in Portland, Or., and Boston, Ma., paid $1.65 billion for 2.2 million acres, including 145,000 in Southern Oregon. Of that, 460 acres of forest reserve land in Jackson County, Or., and 800 acres just across the border in Siskiyou County, Ca., don't fit into its strategic plan.

The prime lot is the 95-acre Katydid Ranch, which Boise acquired from Elk Lumber Co. in the 1960s and converted into a tree nursery in the 1980s.

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