Monday, August 6th was supposed to be the day that the course at the Ravines would be sold to the highest bidder on the courthouse steps.  That event is cancelled secondary to the request for bankruptcy by the owner, Mr. DeBusk.

Mr DeBusk will be having a meeting to discuss his perceptions regarding the petition for bankruptcy on Monday, Aug 6 at 6:30PM in the Fairway Villas' Board Room in The Ravines.  This is located between Villas D & E.  I was told that if I had any neighbors/friends that I thought might be interested in hearing this particular discussion that I was to "feel free to bring them" and further that this meeting would be "...opened to any and all questions..."

 The sense I have is that this would be far from a reliable or informative session and all would be well advised to simply skip it.  Better and more accurate information is available from the courthouse and not from the embattled owner.  The last meeting I had attended where he led and spoke went from a 20 minute recap about his history with the course to a two hour rant where the blame and problems of the course were placed on those bad residents of the Ravines leading ultimately to the sudden announcement of the closing of the course.  It was an exceptionally unpleasant event but, reportedly, not unprecedented. 

I am not going.  I don't need the aggravation or the self aggrandizement that will be in full flower.

I had moved here to live and use the myriad of amenities that were dangled in front of me as an enticement.  They were discontinued with the closing of the club.  May never come back either...

All except for the neighborliness we experience here in the Ravines.    

Takes a special sort of business plan to achieve that sort of debacle.