As the coordinator of the Interfaith Council of Rossmoor’s Big Questions Forum, Sara Blackstock has grown accustomed to using Zoom during the pandemic to engage with residents on topics of the day. But the experience of being back in the Fireside Room at Gateway on May 4 for an in-person education event was something Zoom just couldn’t duplicate. B...

The GRF Board has 11 total openings for non-Board members on its GRF committees that it is looking to fill in June. The committee openings are as follows: • Aquatics Advisory Committee: three • Audit Committee: two • Finance Committee: three • Fitness Center Advisory Committee: two • Golf Advisory Committee: one Residents interested in serving on a...

GRF directors will wait and see about expanding indoor social gatherings, look to the future on facilities needs, and put to rest cutting golf hours to allow walkers extra time on the Creekside Golf Course. Only three of nine Board members were convinced that the capacity of facilities should be increased before Gov. Gavin Newsom announces specific...

Marie Kahn regrets that big patches of greenery around Rossmoor are being pulled up – in some cases, to require a crane for their removal. But the aesthetic loss, she said, is a necessary sacrifice for safety. “Having to endure the loss of the bushes and other plants is very painful,” said Kahn, a resident of Ptarmigan Drive. “But so too is having ...

Parents and goslings are in spotlight in Rossmoor Rossmoor may be a 55 and older community for humans, but when it comes to Canada Geese, it’s clearly a bastion for young families. Scores of residents have sent photos to the News in recent weeks of proud mother and father geese watching over their goslings on Rossmoor’s golf courses and marching th...

New guidance about masks means Rossmoor residents can now walk outdoors without a face covering – as long as they are fully vaccinated. On Monday, California updated its mask mandate to follow some recommendations made last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The guidance says that it’s safe for those fully vaccinated to w...

Keeping up with scams ‘a continuous battle,’ says Public Safety Manager Tom Cashion said keeping up with the seemingly endless list of senior scams has been “a continuous battle” ever since he started his career with Walnut Creek police. Now Rossmoor’s public safety manager, Cashion spent more than two decades with WCPD dealing with everything from...

Nervous residents were promised there will be a “live” drill in the coming months to test how well emergency plans will work if a wildfire roars into Rossmoor. The assurances were made during an April 15 online program that was to feature PG& E’s statewide wildfire safety program. But instead, it drew attention to how prepared local agencies ar...

Topic is on the agenda for the GRF Board Contra Costa County eclipsed its goal of 1 million COVID-19 vaccinations more than a month ahead of schedule, with 68% of its residents who are 16 or older receiving at least one dose of the vaccine. Recognizing how vaccines have changed the landscape, California officials are allowing social gatherings agai...

Diabetes and Alzheimer’s might seem like completely different diseases, “but we know from the science that they are actually very related,” says Dr. David K. Johnson, a professor of neurology at UC Davis and director of the university’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Walnut Creek. Dr. Johnson is looking to build on that science in Rossmoor through t...