Ride requests must be made today Transportation service will be available within Rossmoor and the Rossmoor Shopping Center on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, Nov. 27) and the day after Thanksgiving (Friday, Nov. 28). Service will be available within the Rossmoor community and the shopping center from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; there will be no service to downto...

Be Rossmoor Ready Earthquake Preparedness By Ken Jonah, EPO chair San Andreas, Hayward-Rogers Creek, Calaveras, Concord-Green Valley and San Gregorio. These are the major earthquake faults in the Bay Area. Welcome to California earthquake country! What is an earthquake? An earthquake is a sudden, rapid shaking of the earth caused by the shifting of...

Stories both somber and light-hearted mark event Rossmoor’s fifth annual Vets Town Hall, held on Veterans Day at Creekside Clubhouse, featured the usual array of poignant, harrowing and somber accounts from residents who served in the military and experienced the harsh realities of war. But, as in past years, the tears of sadness and loss were inte...

About 130 people attend project milestone It was a gathering Bill Dougherty never would have predicted he would attend. On Friday morning, just south of the Event Center, Dougherty – the founder in 2010 of the Rossmoor Pickleball Club, and its first president – wielded a traditional gold shovel at the groundbreaking ceremony for Rossmoor’s pickleba...

Staff writer Ken Jonah, the chairman of the Rossmoor Emergency Preparedness Organization (EPO), kicked off Wednesday’s forum on scams targeting older people in Creekside’s Club Room by asking attendees how many scams aimed at older people were reported in the U.S. last year. “52 billion calls,” Jonah said. “It averages 50 billion calls a year. And ...

In what was described as a “good first step,” the RWC Planning Committee addressed questions and set priorities for the RWC 2026 capital budget at its meeting last week. Committee members did some early minor reprioritizing of planned projects, and went over proposed new capital projects, machinery and equipment budget requests and items transferre...

FROM SECURITAS The following are the major incidents reported to Securitas, Rossmoor’s security service provider. They appear here as they were initially reported to Securitas. After investigation, details of a case may indicate a lesser or different incident description. If the case warrants it, the News will do a follow-up story. Wednesday, Nov. ...

Rossmoor Walnut Creek (RWC) has updated its official email address for contacting the RWC Board and several of its advisory committees. Residents who previously used grb@rossmoor.com should now send messages to the new address: rwcboard@rossmoor.com This change reflects the or-ganization’s recent name tran-sition from Golden Rain Foundation (GRF) t...

Details lacking so far, except will focus on community services RWC leaders want to develop ways to determine whether Rossmoor’s various community services, programs and amenities are as relevant and impactful as they can be, and a task force set up to devise those methods met for the first time last week. That may be a harder ask than it appears a...

24TH ANNUAL HEALTH FAIR Large crowd waiting as this year’s fair opened The link between “bus transportation” and “health” is more direct than many people would think, and Penny Reed wanted to drive that point home. “There are three pillars to health – biological, psychological and social,” said Reed, manager of Rossmoor Counseling Services. “Bus tr...