By Pam Mellskog, For the Times-Call
A blizzard swirled into Longmont as Dick Tanaka’s then high school-age daughter knocked on doors, and she figured bad weather motivated her boss to pick her up and take her home.
Debbie (Tanaka) Williams had been canvassing neighborhoods for a Colorado nonprofit foundation against big banks and other powerful special interest groups.
“But my boss told me it was something else, something serious, and when I got home it was surreal,” she said.
That afternoon in 1989, Boulder Creek Farms foreclosed on the $3 million mortgage Tanaka Farms held on 1,000 acres five miles south of Longmont and forced the family to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy and liquidate assets, according to Times-Call reports.
On Nov. 19, the Tanakas again will sell everything.
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