Service, décor and (especially) the food get thumbs-up It may have been a soft opening, but most people asked about their initial experience at The Golden Pear restaurant on May 21 were pretty firm about how much they liked the new eatery’s first-day offerings. “The chicken soup is as good as I’ve had, and I’m a Jewish mother,” said Maxine Topper, ...

Retired doctors were interns at Highland Hospital Bernie Wolf was sifting through old photos when he noticed something interesting. Glancing at a half-century- old yearbook-style photo of interns at Oakland’s Highland Hospital, he spotted a few familiar faces and names within the Rossmoor Men’s Tennis Team. Wolf, the captain of the men’s team, real...

Rossmoor Advocates for Diversity has not shied away from big concepts. So RAD offering its first allday conference should come as no surprise. The RAD Vision Conference came to the Fireside Room on May 21. It featured four presenters, coming from different areas of professional expertise, focusing on ways to better understand one’s own unconscious ...

back about the food, the service and the dining room itself. Sometimes, he sought that feedback by sitting right down with the diners as they ate and asking them what they thought. After the first wave of 20-some diners, he said things were going smoothly. There was constructive criticism, which Worth intentionally sought out during the soft openin...

The Rossmoor Walnut Creek Board on Thursday formally approved updates to a privacy policy covering Rossmoor’s four websites, and heard updates of a second, wider-ranging Rossmoor privacy policy, both specifying how RWC should handle member residents’ personal identifying information. These privacy-related updates were recommended by the RWC Policy ...

The Golden Pear moved much closer to opening last week when it secured the final needed permit from the county’s health division. The Golden Pear held its soft opening on Thursday and Friday, May 21 and 22. Earlier this year, residents were invited to email their name and address and the names and addresses of up to three other Rossmoor residents t...

Residents share feedback during Open House Rather than the three planned sessions, popular demand to attend a May 20 Open House to gather comments and suggestions about an ambitious plan to overhaul Gateway, Rockview and the Dollar House prompted Rossmoor Walnut Creek (RWC) officials to host a total of six sessions, each of 100 residents. “It’s goo...

Event teaches how to get up after a fall There is considerable attention paid in Rossmoor to preventing falls, to staying on one’s feet to avoid what can be an inconvenience at best, or for some seniors, life-altering injuries at worst. But when someone does fall, what is the best way to FALLS: Fitness trainers show how to get back up on your feet ...

Some residents came to the Rossmoor’s Dog Park on May 14 to check out the visitors. Some came to take a test ride. Others just needed a fix … of dogs. Contra Costa Animal Services brought its mobile pet adoption vehicle to the Dog Park for a couple afternoon hours to see whether it could make some matches between five dogs needing homes and Rossmoo...

Issue remains undecided at Aquatics & Fitness meeting A proposed fee of $5 for certain Fitness Center classes defined as “specialty classes” remains on hold for now. A newly formed subcommittee of three members of the Aquatics and Fitness Advisory Committee – Joan Boyle, Catherine Robinson-Walker and Mary Lou Thompson – will be reviewing the is...