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Innovation and dependabitity make up the fibers of our company and the products we create.

We understand that your customers count on you to seek out the most distinctive and retiabte new products. That's whywe've Led the industry in devetoping innovative timber products, like Accuruff', our rough-sawn product with a uniformty apptied rustic f inish, and Tru-Dry', the most consistently and eventy dried Douglas fir product avaiLabte. We are committed to providing you with outstanding forest products that remain strong and beautif uI for generations.

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Central Home SnPPIY moved to a new 6,000-sq. ft. location on a leased 4-acre site in Scotts Valley, Ca....

Friday Harbor Ace Hardware, Friday Harbor, Wa., has filed for bankruptcy protection ...

Kelseyville Lumber, KelseYville, Ca., will convert to Progressive Solutions' bisTrack software when it opens its 120,000-sq. ft. replacement store later this Year

Sierra Vsta Ace Hardware and Benson Ace Hardware ownet Les Orchekowsky received rezoning approval to add a store in Bisbee, Ca....

Lowe's Cos. oPened new 117,000-sq. ft. stores Nov. 1 in Hanford, Ca.; Oct. 18 in Menifee, Ca., and Oct. 16 in E. Vancouver, Wa., and will build on 11 acres in Klamath Falls. Or.

Home Depot oPened a 126900sq. ft. store with 25,000-sq. ft. garden center Oct. 30 in Huntington Beach, Ca.; is reconsidering its plan to build a second location in Vallejo, Ca., and continues trying to buy 15.5 acres in Grants Pass, Or., from Timber Products Co., Springfield, Or., to build a 102,513-sq. ft. store with 28086sq. ft. garden center...

Broadway Hardware, Sacramento, Ca., is closing late next month after 70 years, with the retirement of owners Dave and Gisela Haskins

Grainger added a new branch in Fremont, Ca. ...

Parker Lumber,Bremerton, Wa., completely redesigned its website, wwwparkerlumber.com

Bruce Bauer Lumber & Supply, Mountain View, Ca., has begun closing on Sundays, to better serve the increasing weekdaY business with the same worKorce ...

Parr Lumber, Hillsboro, Or., won a Reader's Choice award from the Forest Grove Nerrys in the category of "Best Place to BuY Building Supplies"

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H amp t o n Affiliate s, Portland, Or., permanently reduced the annual capacity of Willamina Lumber Co., Willamina, Or., from 500+ million bd. ft. to under 350 million ft., effective Nov. 1

Georgia-Pacific reduced oPerations at its Philomath, Or., sawmill from two shifts to one, eliminating 30jobs...

Banks Lumber, Banks, Or., has temporarily curtailed production, effective Oct. 17. due to market conditions ...

Sun Mountain Lumber cut 23 jobs at its fingerjoint and Planer operations in Deer Lodge, Mt.

Stimson Lumber Co. gave 60days notice to emPloYees that it wiil close its Arden, Wa., sawmill by early December, but hoPes to continue reduced production at the facility...

DR Johnsol? temporarilY idled \ts Prairie Wood Producls sawmill in Prairie City, Or., Sept. 30 and its planer mill Oct.3

Tricon Timber, Regis, Mt., has cut back to a single shift ...

Lebanon Hardboard's mill in Lebanon, Or., suffered extensive damage from an Oct.7 fire; the facility has not manufactured wood products since its purchase in Jan. 2006...

Universal Forest Products has earned Forest Stewardship Council chain-of-custody certification at eight of its plants, including

Chandler, Az.; Thornton and Riverside, Ca.; Windsor, Co., and Woodburn, Or. ...

Potlatch Corp., Spokane, Wa., earned Forest Stewardship Council certification for its particleboard facility in Post Falls, Id.

Timber Products Co., SPringfield, Or., won mixed sources chain-of-custody certification from FSC for its manufacturing plants in Yreka, Ca., and White CitY, Or. ...

Arauco permanently closed its Red Hills sawmill in Chile SePt. 30, due to lower demand for its products in the U.S. ...

Simpson Strong-Tie's Titen HD screw anchor is now code listed for use in both cracked and uncracked concrete and meets 2006 code requirements ...

Azek Porch was added to a code compliance research rePort bY Architectural Testing Inc.

Capital Lumber, Phoenix, Az., now distributes CertainTeed's ColorMax fiber cement siding and WeatherBoards decking in Az.,Id., N.M.,IJt., Nv., Wa., and Ca.

Housing starts in SePtember declined 6.3Vo to a seasonallY adiusted annual rate of 817,000 un-its ... single-family starts fell l2vo to a rate of 544,000 unitsthe slowest pace since 1982, while multifamily starts rose 7 .SVo regionally, starts in the West dropped 16.8%o permits weredown 8.3Vo to an annual rate of 786000.

Gorrection

The Hardwood Store, not The Hardware Store, is the correct name of the new outlet oPened last month in Coeur d' Alene, ld., bY Kevin Triphahn and Clint Bower.