GRF Board meeting The multi-million dollar cost to build and operate a water reclamation facility to supply Rossmoor’s golf courses with water just got cheaper. That’s because Rossmoor was granted riparian rights to Tice Creek, Resident Services Director Jeff Matheson told the GRF Board during last Thursday’s meeting. “The quantity of water needed ...

The Rossmoor News will have early deadlines for the Dec. 4 issue because of Thanksgiving. All columns, club trip listings and religion articles are due Monday, Nov. 25, by noon. All other club and organization articles are due Tuesday, Nov. 26, by 2 p.m. All ads and letters to the editor must be turned in by Wednesday, Nov. 27, by 9 a.m. No deadlin...

New power pole installed a week ago near Golden Rain “ Finally,” was the comment from bystanders who watched a new power pole go up at noon on Oct. 23 off Golden Rain Road, Entry 15. It took several years of Rossmoor residents complaining and five fires in a dozen years, but PG& E finally replaced its problematic power pole. Worried Rossmoor ne...

Rossmoor residents reconnect, then remarry Bonnie and Bob Daines tied the knot for the second time around at a “joyful” ceremony at Dollar Clubhouse on Sept. 7. It’s been a long and winding road since 1960, when the couple first got married. That marriage eventually ended in divorce, but the couple believe fate – and a little help from their daught...

Dollar Clubhouse pool will close for the winter one month early – on Sunday, Nov. 3 – so the pool can be replastered. The decision was made to replaster in November, ahead of possible winter rains. “We’re trying to avoid any weather-related impacts,” Jeff Matheson, director of resident services, said of the early closure. The other outdoor pool, wh...

For the month of September, operating results were $66,000 favorable to budget. Total revenues were over budget by $4,000 and total expenses were under budget by $62,000. Cumulative for the first nine months of the year, revenues were under budget by $109,000 and expenses were below budget by $225,000, for a net surplus to budget of $116,000. All a...

Third Mutual board of directors held its annual budget meeting on Oct. 23, presided over by President Arlyss Rothman. After a presentation by Paul Donner, director of Mutual Operations, the board unanimously approved the 2020 budgets for Third Mutual’s 24 Projects. Donner talked about the newly developed 2020 budgets for the 24 Projects. He address...

On Veteran’s Day – Monday, Nov. 11 – Rossmoor buses will run on a weekend Dial-A-Bus schedule. For Dial-A-Bus rides, residents should call 925988-7676 at least one hour before the requested time. Phones are open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and bus service runs from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Trips to the Walnut Creek downtown area are at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. and 1:30...

The News will have early deadlines for the Nov. 13 issue because of the Veteran’s Day holiday. All articles for that issue are due no later than Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 3 p.m. All ads, obits and letters to the editor are due no later than Thursday, Nov. 7, at 9 a.m. No extended deadlines can be granted. The News office and all Golden Rain Foundation ...

PG&E confirms replacement set for this month They got their hopes up, but for a very brief time. An East Bay Times article last week said that a PG& E official had announced that work started last Tuesday to remove and replace a problematic power pole off Golden Rain Road, Entry 16. Fires under the pole, which sits on Acalanes school distri...