Do One Thing for a Readier Rossmoor

Rossmoor EPO tip: The American Red Cross’ pub-lic reunification tool, “Safe and Well,” established after Hurricane Katrina, is being overhauled and not available at this time. Facebook’s in-novative free “Safety Check” is an excellent alternative so Rossmoor residents can easily reunify with family and friends and register their post-disaster statu...
Posted on February 21, 2023
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Fitness Center picks up steam

New classes generating interest on heels of an active month Ja nua r y pr ovided a promising start to the new year for Tice Creek Fitness Center as more Rossmoor residents grow comfortable with indoor activities. While storms raged outside for much of the month, the center was a beehive of activity. In the continued emergence from the COVID-19 pand...
Posted on February 14, 2023
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Planning Committee takes its next step toward new pickleball facility

A new pickleball facility and solar arrays near the Event Center will share the same space but will move forward separately because of cost and solar tax credit requirements. The Planning Committee learned at Thursday’s meeting that the solar array panels could not serve as a roof for a new pickleball facility unless they were not connected to the ...
Posted on February 14, 2023
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Rossmoor Big Band trombonist had key role in making fusion happen

Erlan Bliss heard about it in an email a few days before the world learned on Dec. 13 that scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had achieved, however briefly, a long-sought breakthrough – fusion ignition, which is hoped to one day provide virtually endless clean energy, improve national defense and, perhaps, contribute to other scie...
Posted on February 14, 2023
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Shopping Center event gives residents chance to interact with tenants

Residents had the chance to hear from several of Rossmoor Shopping Center’s newest tenants during an open house Thursday at the Event Center. This was the first such annual meet-up inside the Rossmoor gate since before the pandemic. Much has changed since then at the center, where the second phase of its extensive redevelopment has produced an arra...
Posted on February 14, 2023
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Final report heads to Board

Civility Task Force The GRF Civility Task Force, its six-month mission officially complete, will now submit to the full GRF Board a 38-page report with several recommendations. Those include creating a PowerPoint presentation about civility that can be shown to clubs and other Rossmoor groups; creating a “community pledge of civility” for Rossmoor ...
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News has early deadlines this week for holiday

The Rossmoor News has early deadlines this week for the Feb. 22 paper because of the Presidents’ Day holiday. The deadline for all columns was Monday, Feb. 13 and for club trip, religion and movie articles was Tuesday, Feb. 14. All other club and organization articles are due by Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 10 a.m. All ads, obituaries and letters to the e...
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Meeting on tiny homes project set for Feb. 16

A neighborhood meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 16, at 6 p.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church to discuss the Hope Village tiny homes project. The project calls for six affordable housing units on church grounds that are each approximately 270 square feet in size. According to the city of Walnut Creek, the supportive housing project qualifies for st...
Posted on February 14, 2023
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Tax-Aide worth the wait

In-person tax service back, sign-ups very popular for appointments Joanne Genet was standing in line in front of Hillside Clubhouse on Thursday, a chilly morning, with perhaps 60 people ahead of her. The wait, and the cold, were well worth it to Genet to sign up to have her taxes done at no cost through the AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Program. “This i...
Posted on February 7, 2023