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William 6'Bill" Openshaw, 88, longtime bookkeeper and accountant for a number of Ukiah. Ca.. lumber companies, died Sept. l0 in Ukiah.

During World War II, he served with the Army's 108th infantry in the Philippines and Korea. After the war, he returned to semi-pro baseball before becoming a bookkeeperlaccountant for Ukiah Pine Lumber Co., Ukiah. He later worked for Crawford Lumber, Georgia Pacific Lumber, and Cordes Langley.

He was also active in the Hoo-Hoo Club in Ukiah.

Leland Eric Janke, 86, retired c.e.o. and president of Salt Lake Mill & Lumber, Salt Lake City, Ut., died Aug.29 in St. George, Ut.

He attended the University of Utah before enlisting in the Naval Aviation Program in December 1942. He joined Salt Lake Mill after his discharge in 1946 and worked there for 50 years.

Rich Harley , 59, sales rep for Beronio Lumber, San Francisco, Ca., died Sept. 12 after suffering a heart attack while participating in the Brooklyn Bridge Swim in New York City.

Mr. Harley swam competitively after graduating from San Francisco State University. In 1980, he was the first to swim from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge to the San Francisco Marina. He was swimming to raise money for the Daraja Academy in Kenya.

He worked at Beronio for eieht years.

Dennis K. Evans. 64. former owner of Denny's True Value Hardware, Fernley, Nv., died Sept. 13 in Fallon, Nv.

Mr. Evans owned and operated his store during the mid-1980s. He later worked at Ranch & Home and until recently had been manager of the rental department at Louie's Ace Hardware, Fallon.

Dwight Carl "Mike" Sievers, 83, longtime Oregon log buyer, died Sept. 2 in Portland, Or.

He joined the Navy in 1944 and served on the destroyer that carried the first servicemen who entered China after the Japanese surrender. wirh the help of the G.I. Bill, he earned a degree in forestry from Oregon State University in 1950 and went to work as a log buyer.

Wiltiam S. "Bill" Marvin.92. retired president and chairman of Marvin Windows & Doors, Warroad, Mn., died Aug. 31 in Warroad.

He joined his family's lumber business, Marvin Lumber & Cedar Co., in 1939. He pushed the company to focus exclusively on windows and doors, and rose to the rank of chairman and president in 1960.

Workers Sue Westlake Ace

A class-action suit filed by 135 current and former employees of Westlake Hardware, can go forward after certification by a federal judge. Filed last year, the lawsuit includes all front-end supervisors, later known as administrative managers, who were employed as such from July 31,2005, to the present.

The suit alleges that Westlake misclassified the front-end supervisors as salary exempt under the Fair Labor

Standards Act and thus improperly denied them overtime pay.

Brendan J. Donelon, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said that the employees' testimony showed they typically worked more than 50 hours a week without overtime pay.

Lenexa, Ks.-based Westlake operates more than 80 Ace Hardware stores in New Mexico. Kansas. Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma and Texas.

Vandals Attack Vacated Yard

Vandals caused significant damage at an empty lumberyard and component plant in Longview, Wa., that is owned by Minnesota-based Lyman Lumber.

Authorities said that the vandals tore down trees and barbed-wire fencing, tossed around concrete blocks that narrowly missed an extensive sprinkler system, and damaged an expensive automatic gate.

Lyman, which also owns Woodinville Lumber, Woodinville, Wa., and Tri-County Truss, Burlington, Wa., currently has the 75,000-sq. ft. facility up for sale, asking approximately $10 million.