The American Red Cross is sounding the alarm about a severe blood shortage and urging the public to make an appointment to give now. In a July 27 news release, the Red Cross said it needs to collect more than 1,000 additional blood donations each day to meet current hospital demand and erase the shortage. It has been distributing about 12% more blo...

Church collaborating on plan for 6 to 8 tiny homes Achurch near Rossmoor is proposing to put six “micro homes” on an unused portion of its parking lot, a concept that has elicited reactions ranging from solid support to vociferous objection. None of it surprises the Rev. Mark Burnham, whose Grace Presbyterian Church was part of a presentation to th...

Phase 1 of renovations now underway Since the coronavirus disrupted everyone’s lives some 17 months ago, Rossmoor residents have been making lemonade out of lemons. So, it should come as no surprise that when the Gateway Ceramics Studio shut down in mid-June for perhaps six months of renovation, Ceramic Arts Club (CAC) members decided to create an ...

Health officers recommend wearing masks indoors With COVID-19 case numbers and rates rising locally as the highly transmissible delta variant spreads, Bay Area health officials on July 16 recommended that everyone wear masks in public indoor spaces to ensure easy verification that all unvaccinated people are masked in those settings. And on July 22...

Julie and Joe Baratta bought their home near the Hillside swimming pool about a year ago, in part because it’s so close to the pool. They figured they would go swimming with their three grandkids, who live locally, often during designated “Family Swim” hours. “We knew the pool was closed” because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Julie Baratta said, “but w...

GRF will continue to operate Dial-ABus service for the foreseeable future, and the separate subsidized rideshare program through GoGo Grandparents is now available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Resident Services Director Jeff Matheson said the colored bus lines with set schedules will not return. Instead, residents can call with as little as a...

Forum focuses on different perspectives At some point several years ago, Sara Blackstock had printed out, or perhaps just found, a paper with a list of approximately 30 questions on it – “big questions,” she said. She put that paper back into a file and didn’t think about it for a while. But those questions were Organizers of the Big Questions Foru...

The GRF Policy Committee briefly toyed with the idea of recommending to the GRF Board that all political columns in the Rossmoor News be dropped to help ensure that resident-written columns are not offensive. Last week’s review of the News editorial policy stemmed from a barrage of complaints about an April “As You Write It” column, which some resi...

Rossmoor residents describe what Games meant to them – then and now Barbara Jordan is more than ready for the Summer Olympics to begin. And don’t even think of bothering her once they start on July 23. “It all brings me to a standstill,” said Jordan, 84, a Rossmoor resident for about 15 years. “I will not be answering my telephone, I will not be go...

Trainer also working with U.C. Davis study You might say Rossmoor is just the right fit for Paullette Creel, a new trainer at the Tice Valley Fitness Center. She works Tuesdays through Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Creel started about a month ago. She is a personal trainer and a health coach. She teaches classes such as cycling, aquacise and T...