GRF Board of Directors and its committee meetings return to in-person at their scheduled locations. The decision to resume in-person meetings was made after California reopened businesses and dropped many COVID-related restrictions on June 15. Because attendance was high during the pandemic for the Board meetings on Zoom, the directors have decided...

Residents’ input to help with master plan More places to walk and bike, more dining options, food truck nights, more things for the grandkids to do, better parking and perhaps even Rossmoor’s own “town square.” These were some of the most oft-mentioned wish-list items at a June 15 community workshop at the Event Center. The workshop, which drew abo...

Kathy Anderson would l i ke to ma ke some changes to her First Mutual manor. “It would be nice to remodel my bathroom, do some work in the kitchen,” Anderson said. “But I can’t afford it. “If I had extra (money), I could do a lot more, and that would bring the value of my manor up,” she added. Anderson would like to take out a reverse mortgage loan...

Plans are for the results of that survey, along with information gathered from the June 15 workshops and three earlier smaller focus groups, to be brought to the July 8 GRF Planning Committee meeting for the committee’s input. Ultimately, Masenten said, the goal is to have a draft 10-year improvement and funding plan ready sometime in October. Dwig...

Kairi’s Kitchen will not be reopening its dining service inside the Redwood Room at Gateway, but fans of chef Michael Parham can still look forward to his offerings at special events. In a June 5 letter to GRF officials, Parham said Kairi’s Kitchen would not return to operate or manage the Redwood Room Café, which has been closed since the pandemic...

It could be a year or more before four manors damaged in a June 3 fire are habitable again, a Golden Rain Foundation official said last week. Two upstairs units in a multi-unit co-op building at 2925 Golden Rain Road were damaged by a fire that Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman Steve Hill said is believed to have started in an ...

Reservations are no longer needed and the doors are open again for drop-ins, but residents will need to be patient as the Fitness Center moves into its post-pandemic life. Last year, trainers Julie Hughes and Dennis Shimoko left the Fitness Center, along with a part-time trainer. Those positions were not filled during the shutdown or gradual reopen...

GRF Planning Committee The cost to improve and expand the Creekside pickleball courts has more than doubled from the $300,000 already approved. And, if a block of Rossmoor Parkway is reconfigured for on-street parking, the cost would nearly quadruple to $1.1 million. The Planning Committee wants the Finance Committee to Additional work will be need...

Entry dumpsters throughout Rossmoor have been misunderstood. All our lives we have been encouraged to not litter and to dispose of our trash in a proper receptacle – the trash can! Why then, can’t Rossmoor residents use the dumpsters in the trash enclosures for all their refuse needs? The simple answer is that the dumpsters in the trash enclosures ...

A caption in the June 9 News mislabeled who was in the photo. It should have read “Murphy and Steve Nieman, along with Amber, will be walking in the Sneakers and Paws Hospice East Bay fundraiser.” The June 2 letter headline “It’s time to represent women with trails’ names” indicated a solution that the letter itself did not propose. The letter writ...