There's more to this story...
The Thompson Falls Ledger had a story about Turning Leaf (when it was Whispering Pines) which talked about Mike Linderman teaming up with Glen Schenavar to start the Whispering Pines program. Schenavar made it sound like it was his program, as if he owned it. The name of the mysterious money man behind it all was a secret. Schenavar was just the promoter who helped the real owner, Jim Dorrian find other staff from Spring Creek who were ready to jump ship and get paid some big bucks to defect. Its like Spring Creek was a sinking ship and Whispering Pines was the only life raft in sight. Now that Chaffin Pullan is part of the team, the new "Spring Creek" is in the making.
"Jim Dorrian didn't have to seek the spotlight in 1999: As a Silicon Valley venture capitalist during the stock market's bull run, he had rock-star status among budding entrepreneurs and local executives, and he lavished funding on interesting ideas.
But with the economy in a funk and the venture-funding spigot clamped shut, the general partner at Woodside, Calif.-based Crosspoint Venture Partners has to work harder to find worthy entrepreneurs".
http://www.news.com/2008-1082-256214.htmlSo, Glen Schenavar was the real estate front man who helped Dorrian find property in Sanders County so Dorrian could find more Spring Creek people to hire and start the program. This is curious since it would look like a clear conflict of interest when Schenavar, as a real estate agent, is supposed to be representing the guy selling the property, helping him get the best deal. I don't know how much that deal was worth or how much property was involved, but I heard it was a lot of real estate and that Dorrian has $ millions sunk into the deal. Schenavar was probably getting a cut on both ends. :roll:
How this will work is beyond my senses...Dorrian wants to be a secret, Pullan will have to be a secret, Pullan fired Schenavar from Spring Creek #1 and Linderman has been booted...this whole fiasco looks like a comedy of errors in the making.