Billiards Club members have a ball racking up friendships at Gateway Almost equally, you can hear the crack of billiards balls and see people crack smiles. Tucked in a corner of Gateway behind the multipurpose wing, the light green building known as the Billiards Room houses one of Rossmoor’s most enduring clubs. On this Monday afternoon, the Billi...

Shop around for liability coverage It was just a five-minute discussion, but it revealed that obtaining liability insurance coverage for a golf cart isn’t as straightforward a matter as comparing companies’ rates and making the call. As part of a July 12 GRF Golf Advisory Committee INSURANCE: How and when to insure golf carts meeting, Chairman Burk...

In this community, where social gatherings play such a prominent role, making them sustainable is a noble and important goal. This was what Sustainable Rossmoor’s Trash Talk committee discussed in a presentation on Aug. 7 in the Mulligan Room at Creekside. Led by committee co-chairs Rebecca Mason, Kathy Seidl COMPOSTING: How to plan a sustainable g...

While NetSuite is still set to go live on Jan. 1 as Rossmoor’s new business and accounting software package, replacing the obsolete 22-year-old Jenark system, the MyRossmoor.com residents’ portal will not be part of the new system – at least not right away. GRF staffers say some additional work is needed to determine how well the new NetSuite softw...

FIRE SAFETY IN ROSSMOOR Residents who have fire extinguishers in their manors can have them inspected and receive training on using them through a unique program in conjunction with the Rossmoor Emergency Preparedness Organization (EPO). A representative of a family-owned Berkeley equipment company visits Rossmoor entries on a Saturday morning to c...

There was a lot of new material to absorb, but there’s also a lot to fix with GRF’s room reservation system. As part of an ongoing campaign to improve the process to reserve time in any of GRF’s rental rooms and other spaces, GRF Director of Community Services Ann Mottola, assisted by Kelsey Clyma, senior manager of resident services, led eight two...

An internet outage impacted both Comcast and Verizon within and beyond Rossmoor the morning of July 27. It left residents unable to call Securitas, and golf staff had to track a large volume of golfers by hand until the service came back up around 9 a.m. The outage lasted about seven hours, said Eric Loranger, GRF information technology manager. He...

The outdoors pools at Dollar and Hillside will remain open on days of excessive heat, in a modification of some of the guidelines that were implemented during the early July heat wave. During the first part of July, all GRF-managed pools shut down for portions of several afternoons when temperatures reached 102 degrees. These modifications, announc...

day before. Its impact was felt beyond Rossmoor, he noted. Loranger inquired with Comcast regarding the cause of the outage but had not yet received specifics at press time. Because this outage also affected Verizon, which serves as a backup for business activities such as the front gate, it brought down Securitas’ ability to receive calls from res...

Ann Peterson becomes new editor-in-chief Craig Lazzeretti, the Rossmoor News’ assistant managing editor since June 2020, has been named the paper’s managing editor, having assumed the new role on Aug. 1. Meanwhile, Ann Peterson, GRF’s director of communications who has been the News’s managing editor since 2018, assumes the title of editor in chief...