Residents packed tables at the Event Center on Friday, Oct. 2 to listen to elected officials and join an hourlong Right to Be interactive training at “A Day of Listening, Learning and Unity – Rossmoor Stands United Against Hate.” The event drew an overflow crowd, necessitating some last-minute changes to try to accommodate everyone in attendance. J...

The Communications Department is asking residents to share feedback about their communication preferences, how they find and want to receive information, and much more as part of the second phase of its digital transformation project. In this week’s newspaper (pages 5A and 6A), residents will find a front-and-back, two-page communications survey th...

Open enrollment for Medicare starts Thursday, and getting information to Rossmoor residents about changes for 2027 is in high gear. Contra Costa County HICAP (Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program), which counts a handful of Rossmoor residents among its volunteers, once again has in-person events here over the next few weeks, an informat...

Planning Committee A transit study subcommittee has been formed by the RWC Planning Committee as efforts continue to examine and solve Rossmoor transportation issues. The new subcommittee consists of RWC Board members Adrian Byram, Sara Spence and Nan Warren. Byram and Warren are also members of the Planning Committee, which voted 4-0 at its Thursd...

Event draws prominent officials as speakers Wilk, Chief Assistant District Attorney Simon O’Connell, Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier. “When I found out about this symposium and found out that 18 groups had co-sponsored it, I was just floored,” Bauer-Kahan said. “Because at this moment in time, to get groups who ha...

Transportation offered to drop box or Nov. 3 polling site The Companions Club is offering free assistance to any resident needing their mail-in ballot for the Nov. 3 General Election delivered to the ballot drop box at Grace Presbyterian Church. The drop box is available now through Nov. 3. Club members will also drive residents to the Rossmoor pol...

Nearly 40 services on hand at Health Fair Cicely Chin emerged from getting her blood pressure checked, beaming one of the brightest smiles seen during last week’s Health Fair. This was Chin’s first time at the Health Fair, after she moved here two years ago. She wanted to see whether her blood pressure that day matched what was taken by her doctor ...

With her last client retiring, Gail Strack is doing the same. This ends an adventurous work journey for Strack, 86, who carved out a career as a female business owner when that wasn’t the norm. She made her mark in medical transcription, as a traveling notary, and earlier as a teacher. When Dr. Gary Aguilar, a San Francisco ophthalmologist and Stra...

That Carol Amaya was alive and present at Saturday’s Emergency Preparedness Fair was proof she knows the value of being prepared for disaster. Amaya, who heads up Mutual 40’s emergency preparedness committee, lost her home in the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise. “I wanted to come in, see what the emergency preparedness materials were all about, and also...

“Neighbors helping neighbors” was the theme of a Rossmoor Fund donor campaign in 2023-24, and volunteer officials still use that term to describe what the Fund does ‒ help hundreds of fellow residents each year who experience urgent financial needs. And while the Fund still depends on residents’ individual donations to make a difference in helping ...