Managing editor This week, a writer asks in a letter to the editor why she had to wait four days to get a pest control appointment to deal with a persistent ant problem. It turns out she was not alone. The Work Order Desk received 269 calls and 100 emails on the same day she called for an appointment, said Business Operations Manager Chris Preminge...

Staff writer A survey that will evaluate Comcast service in Rossmoor needs only minor changes before it’s distributed to residents sometime this fall. The six members of the Ad Hoc TV/Internet Survey Task Force asked some acquaintances to comment on the draft of the survey. The task force discussed those remarks at its Aug. 20 meeting. (Member Howa...

As a result of rising incidents of hate and racism, Rossmoor’s Friends of Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center will hold a discussion on “How to be an anti-racist.” The meeting is Friday, Sept. 5, at 1 p.m. in the Vista Room at Hillside. The discussion topic will be based on a book of the same name by Ibram X. Kendi. He said the only way to undo rac...

First Mutual will hold its 52nd Annual Meeting of the membership on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 10 a.m. in the Fireside Room at Gateway. All members are encouraged to attend. Light refreshments will be served. Topics include the president’s report; a recap of the past year’s events; residents’ forum; and announcement of the organizational meeting. One cand...

Eric Cox’s motto might explain why he would hike down a steep hill and climb through a hole in a fence off Golden Rain Road in early August. “I’m the kind of person,” the Rossmoor resident explains, “where if I see a problem, I say, let’s see how we can get it fixed.” On Aug. 7, Cox was looking at the work PG& E had done recently to clear veget...

Two years after fire, moving day finally here Residents of four condos on Rossmoor Parkway that were destroyed in a fire nearly two years ago finally get to go home this month, just a few days shy of when the blaze broke out on Sept. 2, 2017. Fortunately, none of the residents was hurt – though, sadly, Papaya the cat lost her life – and all four un...

Earthquake, fire, flood, wind storm, landslide, heat wave, cold snap or long power outages – take your pick of disasters waiting to happen. Then ask yourself, how does someone prepare to survive the worst? Rossmoor’s Emergency Preparedness Committee (EPO) knows how and wants to share that information. Some of its members spent a year gathering the ...

With PG& E prepared to turn off power to its customers should the threat of wildfire become critical, the utility continues to ask those customers for updated phone numbers, email addresses and other contact information so warning of such temporary shutoffs can be given. San Francisco-based PG& E, which provides electric power to approximat...

Washington Post technology columnist Geoffrey Fowler returns to speak to the Rossmoor Computer Club on Thursday, Aug. 29, at 7 p.m., in the Event Center. His topic is “Stop Calling Me!!” He’ll talk about robocalls – “the No. 1 technology nuisance,” in his opinion. Those annoyances are also the No. 1 complaint fielded by the Federal Communications C...

An article about PG& E clearing vegetation in the Aug. 14 edition had a resident praising GRF’s landscaping crews for trimming vegetation on a stretch of hill off Golden Rain Road. That trimming was done by the Mutual, not GRF. A table tennis caption in the Aug. 14 edition should have listed David Kwok on the left and Frank Chu on the right and...