Event recalls group’s origins, mission Rossmoor Advocates for Diversity took time to celebrate five years of impactful activism in this community while pointing out how current times have kept the organization’s efforts important. RAD hosted a gathering March 21 in the Fireside Room to recall its origins and cast a gaze at the challenges of today. ...

Directors also approve funds for golf irrigation line The GRF Board last week authorized opening the bid process for new pickleball courts behind the Event Center. The Board voted 8 to 1 at the March 27 meeting to seek competitive bids, pending approval of all permits by the city of Walnut Creek. The vote came hours before the Walnut Creek Planning...

Resident shares insights on preventing fraud When Ken Jonah moved to Rossmoor in July of last year, this community gained an expert on senior scams. Jonah has been quite in demand in recent months in and around Rossmoor. He’s been a regular contributor to this newspaper’s Scam Alert articles. He’s been giving presentations, perhaps to a Mutual that...

Although the GRF Finance Committee still had no financial reports to review, Chief Financial Officer Todd Arterburn told them at last week’s meeting that the finance team is making “huge progress” and is “really, really close” for producing reports after delays tied to the implementation of NetSuite, Rossmoor’s new enterprise resource planning syst...

paying the bills.” Recent behind-the-scenes work has included integrating Public Safety, with all of the cases and incidents being logged into NetSuite. “Those reports were having to be manually generated,” Arterburn explained. “Now, they’re all automatically generated at the end of the day. This gives us much more visibility, responsiveness and ef...

The Rossmoor News staff will provide insight on how to get articles, columns and photos into the newspaper during a meeting sponsored by the Rossmoor Activities Council. The program will be held on Tuesday, April 15 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the Fireside Room at Gateway. The editors, writers and photographer of the newspaper will share information a...

A candidates’ forum for the GRF Board of Directors will be held on Tuesday, April 8, from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Peacock Hall. The four candidates running for the GRF Board of Directors have been invited to participate. The candidates include Janet Seldon in District B, Susan Hildreth and Cheryl Hines in District F, and Adrian Byram in District G. A...

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Seldon, Byram elected directors by acclamation; Hildreth and Hines running for seat in District F The candidates who have qualified to run for the GRF Board this spring are Janet Seldon in District B, Susan Hildreth and Cheryl Hines in District F, and Adrian Byram in District G. All candidates were officially certified to run for election by Assist...

Pickleball and pipe project shouldn’t affect golfers GRF officials hope that, perhaps as soon as this week, GRF will get its plans for the pickleball structure near the Event Center approved by the city of Walnut Creek. And at that point, some of the prep work that doesn’t need further permitting can begin. One example of such prep work is the requ...