Billiards Club members have a ball racking up friendships at Gateway Almost equally, you can hear the crack of billiards balls and see people crack smiles. Tucked in a corner of Gateway behind the multipurpose wing, the light green building known as the Billiards Room houses one of Rossmoor’s most enduring clubs. On this Monday afternoon, the Billi...

Shop around for liability coverage It was just a five-minute discussion, but it revealed that obtaining liability insurance coverage for a golf cart isn’t as straightforward a matter as comparing companies’ rates and making the call. As part of a July 12 GRF Golf Advisory Committee INSURANCE: How and when to insure golf carts meeting, Chairman Burk...

In this community, where social gatherings play such a prominent role, making them sustainable is a noble and important goal. This was what Sustainable Rossmoor’s Trash Talk committee discussed in a presentation on Aug. 7 in the Mulligan Room at Creekside. Led by committee co-chairs Rebecca Mason, Kathy Seidl COMPOSTING: How to plan a sustainable g...

FIRE SAFETY IN ROSSMOOR Residents who have fire extinguishers in their manors can have them inspected and receive training on using them through a unique program in conjunction with the Rossmoor Emergency Preparedness Organization (EPO). A representative of a family-owned Berkeley equipment company visits Rossmoor entries on a Saturday morning to c...

There was a lot of new material to absorb, but there’s also a lot to fix with GRF’s room reservation system. As part of an ongoing campaign to improve the process to reserve time in any of GRF’s rental rooms and other spaces, GRF Director of Community Services Ann Mottola, assisted by Kelsey Clyma, senior manager of resident services, led eight two...

An internet outage impacted both Comcast and Verizon within and beyond Rossmoor the morning of July 27. It left residents unable to call Securitas, and golf staff had to track a large volume of golfers by hand until the service came back up around 9 a.m. The outage lasted about seven hours, said Eric Loranger, GRF information technology manager. He...

The outdoors pools at Dollar and Hillside will remain open on days of excessive heat, in a modification of some of the guidelines that were implemented during the early July heat wave. During the first part of July, all GRF-managed pools shut down for portions of several afternoons when temperatures reached 102 degrees. These modifications, announc...

Being politically active on issues important to Rossmoor, improving intra-community communication on those and other issues and developing and implementing water conservation measures were approved on Thursday as GRF Board goals for the 2024-2025 year (fiscal 2025). The specific goals unanimously approved Thursday (member Carol Lehr was absent) wer...

High-end manors faring better than lower-priced homes Amid the challenging real estate landscape in Rossmoor, Mary Beall-Neighbor offered a few rays of hope during a July 23 presentation hosted by the Financial Forum in the Fireside Room. Beall-Neighbor, broker/ manager of RE/MAX Accord’s Rossmoor office, has seen much in her 43 years in real estat...

Working as a buyer for Wente Vineyards near Livermore wasn’t a bad gig at all, Jorie Robinson concedes. But Rossmoor was beckoning with something she considered of greater interest to her. “I liked it there, but I think admin (work) is my bread and butter,” said Robinson, who has been an administrative assistant based at Gateway since January. “It’...