Fallen oak damages railing at Creekside Extreme winds recorded at more than 60 mph near Mt. Diablo on Sunday, Oct. 27, fanned fast-burning fires, uprooted at least four big trees at Rossmoor and tore off branches and limbs of dozens more. Compounding the situation, two fires broke out that afternoon in Lafayette, filling the air with acrid smoke an...

Only about 100 homes in Rossmoor were affected during the Oct. 26 Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS), but in its initial announcement, PG& E indicated almost all of Rossmoor might have lost power. As Northern California grappled with its second major PSPS, windstorms wreaked havoc with the Kincade Fire, leading to mass evacuations in Sonoma Cou...

Vigil has been on job for 2 weeks Director of Golf Mark Heptig is thrilled with the new addition to his staff. Jacque Vigil has joined Rossmoor as the new assistant golf pro, becoming the second woman assistant pro in the 50-plus year history of golf in Rossmoor. She has a 5 handicap and is a PGA pro with decades of golf experience. Heptig has had ...

GRF Board meeting The multi-million dollar cost to build and operate a water reclamation facility to supply Rossmoor’s golf courses with water just got cheaper. That’s because Rossmoor was granted riparian rights to Tice Creek, Resident Services Director Jeff Matheson told the GRF Board during last Thursday’s meeting. “The quantity of water needed ...

The Rossmoor News will have early deadlines for the Dec. 4 issue because of Thanksgiving. All columns, club trip listings and religion articles are due Monday, Nov. 25, by noon. All other club and organization articles are due Tuesday, Nov. 26, by 2 p.m. All ads and letters to the editor must be turned in by Wednesday, Nov. 27, by 9 a.m. No deadlin...

New power pole installed a week ago near Golden Rain “ Finally,” was the comment from bystanders who watched a new power pole go up at noon on Oct. 23 off Golden Rain Road, Entry 15. It took several years of Rossmoor residents complaining and five fires in a dozen years, but PG& E finally replaced its problematic power pole. Worried Rossmoor ne...

Rossmoor residents reconnect, then remarry Bonnie and Bob Daines tied the knot for the second time around at a “joyful” ceremony at Dollar Clubhouse on Sept. 7. It’s been a long and winding road since 1960, when the couple first got married. That marriage eventually ended in divorce, but the couple believe fate – and a little help from their daught...

Dollar Clubhouse pool will close for the winter one month early – on Sunday, Nov. 3 – so the pool can be replastered. The decision was made to replaster in November, ahead of possible winter rains. “We’re trying to avoid any weather-related impacts,” Jeff Matheson, director of resident services, said of the early closure. The other outdoor pool, wh...

For the month of September, operating results were $66,000 favorable to budget. Total revenues were over budget by $4,000 and total expenses were under budget by $62,000. Cumulative for the first nine months of the year, revenues were under budget by $109,000 and expenses were below budget by $225,000, for a net surplus to budget of $116,000. All a...

Third Mutual board of directors held its annual budget meeting on Oct. 23, presided over by President Arlyss Rothman. After a presentation by Paul Donner, director of Mutual Operations, the board unanimously approved the 2020 budgets for Third Mutual’s 24 Projects. Donner talked about the newly developed 2020 budgets for the 24 Projects. He address...