Leanne Hamaji said she knows she has her work cut out over the next year (at least) in her new capacity as GRF Board president. A couple of minutes after she was chosen to succeed three-year Board President Dwight Walker, Hamaji praised her immediate predecessor. “You have an amazing ability to pinpoint issues, find solutions, and provide clarity,”...

Six months ago, GRF officials said the groundbreaking for the new $2.9 pickleball facility would happen in April or May of this year. GRF now anticipates having all the needed city of Walnut Creek permits in hand to start the pickleball facility work by late October; bid results from contractors to do that work by mid-December; and construction sta...

By Mike Wood Staff writer How about swimming five or six events in one day? Judy Morton is up for that challenge. Morton, who turned 85 in March, is keeping up her busy master swimmer schedule. She’s been with the Silver Bullets Swim Club since its inception in 2010, not long after her arrival in Rossmoor with her husband, Bob. In March, Morton won...

PG& E called for no Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) in 2023, a year largely free of big wildfires in California. But even if 2024 sees a return to something more resembling 2020, when more than 9,900 fires burned almost 4.4 million acres of Califor-nia – more than 4% of the state’s total acreage – PG& E hopes its technology that detects...

Cost is the next question to answer regarding replacement of the existing Mutual Operations Department (MOD) office building. The GRF Planning Committee on Thursday approved recommending that the full GRF Board amend its agreement with a Berkeley-based consulting firm to add studying the costs of various alternatives to replace the current office s...

Trees and pest control among topics addressed It was clear after the most recent GRF Virtual Town Hall program that Rossmoor residents take their landscaping and local flora seriously. Also, they don’t like “lollipopping.” More than half of the questions brought up at the April 29 online meeting with GRF General Manager Jeff Matheson and three mana...

Todd Arterburn jumps into his new role Todd Arterburn, Rossmoor’s new chief financial officer, is already immersed in the vitally important conversion to the NetSuite business and accounting software system. With considerable background implementing what’s called ERP, or Enterprise Resource Planning tools, across large companies in the business wor...

Roy Yang won by a large margin last week to become the new GRF Board director for District A. Yang earned 162 votes to finish ahead of Diana St. James with 75 and Melanie Rose with 58 in the district. He replaces Carol Meehan, who was not seeking re-election. Yang joins Ted Bentley in District C, Leanne Hamaji in District D and Cheryl Hines in Dist...

Sonja Christopher gained national attention through her stint in the first season of the CBS reality show “Survivor.” In Rossmoor, her star shined through her countless friendships and the joy she spread through gifts of music and entertainment. Christopher, 87, died in her longtime Rossmoor home April 26. Her friends remember her as a joyous, tale...

Directors might approve the new rule in May Citing a need for increased safety while still allowing for some peaceful protests, the GRF Board on Thursday moved one step closer to approving changes to GRF’s demonstrations policy, which would limit most protests to the grassy area off Rossmoor Parkway near the pickleball courts. The changes, first in...