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MANUFACTURERS Reserve Supply, lrvington, N.J., received the town's inaugural Big Mac Award for its 63 years of service to the area. On hand for the Dec. 29 presentation were (l-r) MRS v.p. Ray Unick, mayor Wayne Smith, MRS president Stephen Boyd, treasurer Marian Romano. McDonald's designed the award for the Bio Mac's 35th birthdav to honor companies and individuals demonstrating "staying powei'by their longterm commitment to their communities.

Fallen Load Traps Worker

An 84 Lumber employee was injured after being pinned beneath a load of truss frames that fell from a delivery truck.

The unidentified worker was unloading the stack of A-frames at a job in Cheswick, Pa., Feb. 4 when the load slipped on top of him. Other workers used a tow truck to free the victim, who was rushed to the hospital with shoulder and foot iniuries.

Pallet Mill Fire Suspicous

Carl F. Elliott Pallets, Deerwalk, W.V., caught fire Feb. 13, decimating most of the business.

The cause of the fire has not yet been determined, but Danny Goodwin, a member of the Wood County Fire Investigation Team, said the fire "does look suspicous."

The fire practically destroyed the sawmill, which has been in the Elliott family name since 1974.

"It was pretty well a complete loss as far as the equipment in it," said Deerwalk Sgt. Rick Rutherford. "It pretty well put him out of business."

Bill Elliott, who worked at the sawmill owned by his father, Carl, said a dollar estimate on damages had not yet been determined.

Rowley Buys N.Y. Dealer

Rowley Building Products Corp., Middletown, N.Y., is expanding to Port Jervis, N.Y., with the purchase of Deerpark Lumber Corp. The $1.1 million deal should close April I with renovations starting shortly thereafter.

Rich Rowley, owner of Rowley Building Products, plans to make the 16-acre Port Jervis store, Rowley's twelfth, a liquidation center. The store will also include a showroom and warehouse.

Rowley acquired the new store location from Charlie Meloi, founder of Deerpark Lumber.

"l'm76-112 years old," said Meloi. "I've been at it 54 years, and I think that's long enough."

Rowley doesn't plan to stop his expansion efforts in Port Jervis. He's currently eyeing properties in Dutchess County, N.Y., and Connecticut, as well as keeping a close watch on Wickes Inc., from which he already hired a manager in Montgomery.

D-l-Yers Rate The Big Boxes

Shoppers at big box home improvement stores say the most important criteria for their purchase decision is that "the store has the absolute best value for my money," according to a new study by Market Resource Associates.

MRA surveyed 2,000 selfdescribed "do-it-yourselfers" in 56 metropolitan markets in the U.S., asking them to rate Home Depot, Lowe's and Menards against specific performance criteria. Respondents had to have entered at least two of the three stores and purchased from at least one over the last 12 months.

Lawn & garden products were the most common home improvement items bought in the last 12 months (a third of those surveyed). The top product categories at Menards were lumber, lighting products, and paints & stains; at Home Depot, L&G, lumber, paints & stains, and Lowe's, L&G, paints & stains, lighting.

Customers at Menards were most likely to buy something whenever they entered the store (94Vo of the time), with Home Depot at 9OVo and Lowe's 807o. Purchasers with the lowest home values were most likely to shop at Menards.

The entire 122-page report is available from Market Resource Associates, (800) 795-3056.

Blaze Destroys lowa Yard

Marcus Lumber Co., Marcus, Ia., suffered an almost total loss from an overnight fire, including damage to two storage buildings, one of which stored the firm's five delivery trucks.

It took more than 75 firefighters from 11 communities to put out the Jan.28 blaze.

Marcus Lumber first started business in 1890. ln l92O the Leavitt family purchased the company and continue to own and operate it.

Losses included some equipment and five delivery trucks. However, only minimal damage was done to the lumber shed and shop area and the company offices were not damaged.

"We are on the phone today trying to replace equipment and get product back in. We are really running pretty much business as usual today, just trying to locate some delivery vehicles," Tom Leavitt said the following day.

According to witnesses, the blaze was visible from about 16 miles north of Marcus.

An investigation by the state fire marshal determined that the cause of the fire was an electrical equipment malfunction.