Service, décor and (especially) the food get thumbs-up It may have been a soft opening, but most people asked about their initial experience at The Golden Pear restaurant on May 21 were pretty firm about how much they liked the new eatery’s first-day offerings. “The chicken soup is as good as I’ve had, and I’m a Jewish mother,” said Maxine Topper, ...

Retired doctors were interns at Highland Hospital Bernie Wolf was sifting through old photos when he noticed something interesting. Glancing at a half-century- old yearbook-style photo of interns at Oakland’s Highland Hospital, he spotted a few familiar faces and names within the Rossmoor Men’s Tennis Team. Wolf, the captain of the men’s team, real...

Rossmoor Advocates for Diversity has not shied away from big concepts. So RAD offering its first allday conference should come as no surprise. The RAD Vision Conference came to the Fireside Room on May 21. It featured four presenters, coming from different areas of professional expertise, focusing on ways to better understand one’s own unconscious ...

back about the food, the service and the dining room itself. Sometimes, he sought that feedback by sitting right down with the diners as they ate and asking them what they thought. After the first wave of 20-some diners, he said things were going smoothly. There was constructive criticism, which Worth intentionally sought out during the soft openin...