Recreation and restaurants step up to help fill the void Thanksgiving 2020 is going to be quite unlike Thanksgivings gone by. With COVID-19 continuing to upend life as normal, most families won’t be crowding round the dinner table to carve the turkey and savor pumpkin pie. But Recreation, and Rossmoor restaurants, are stepping up to make sure every...

The Rossmoor Holiday Food Drive returns, just in time for Thanksgiving, but will look very different because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of collecting food in Rossmoor, this year’s drive will ask residents to make monetary donations to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. As in past years, the event is sponsored by the Interfaith Council...

Tice pools were forced to close last Friday, followed by the Fitness Center and Creekside Grill indoor dining on Tuesday, as Contra Costa County tried to halt rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Indoor pools were shuttered last week after the California Department of Public Health moved the county back to the restrictive red tier on Tuesday...

Resident and avid walker Leanne Hamaji has found a few places in Rossmoor with flat-walking areas that are ideal for walkers. Now, she is sharing them with her neighbors. Her recommendation this week takes walkers to Golden Rain Road, where two connected entries offer a stunning view and a path through Webster’s Grove provides a diversion for more ...

With upcoming holidays and training, there will be changes to bus service in Rossmoor. The buses will not operate on the following holidays: • Wednesday, Nov. 11, for Veterans Day; • Thursday, Nov. 26, and Friday, Nov. 27, for Thanksgiving Day and the day after; • Thursday, Dec. 24, and Friday, Dec. 25, for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; • Friday...

The Rossmoor News will have very early deadlines for the Dec. 2 issue because of Thanksgiving. All columns, club trip listings and religion articles are due Monday, Nov. 23, by noon. All other club and organization articles are due Tuesday, Nov. 24, by noon. All ads and letters to the editor must be turned in by Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 3 p.m. No deadl...

Arecent wildfire seminar hosted by the Rossmoor Emergency Preparedness Organization prompted quite a few questions about emergency evacuation notices. Quite a few means of communications will be used to notify Rossmoor residents in the event of an evacuation. First, the Contra Costa County Wa rning System (CWS) will be used. The CWS will notify lan...

Honoring Rossmoor’s veterans of war In Vietnam, Neil Fiore served in 101st Airborne Neil Fiore, who served in the 101st Airborne Division (dubbed the Screaming Eagles) during the Vietnam War, is not a fan of war – “war is crazy, it’s stupid,” he said – but he wants veterans to get the respect they deserve. “I wear my 101st Airborne hat because of t...

In honor of Veterans Day, I would like to introduce one of our more senior Rossmoor resident veterans, former U. S. Women’s Army Corps (WAC) private first class Leona Shahani. In fall 1943, Shahani was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin. While in college, she was very much aware of the war as she watched the young men in the ROTC “training f...

George Ivanov has been named Rossmoor TV Channel 28 station manager. He replaces Susan Ritner, who retired in July. Ivanov, who was studio coordinator, had filled in on an interim basis. “George has been a quiet, driving force behind the great work at Channel 28 for years, but during the pandemic and subsequent shutdown, he has really shined,” Comm...