Budget includes over $4 million for pickleball facility The GRF Planning Committee voted Thursday to recommend approval of the 2025 Capital Projects list, coming in at $7.408 million, including more than $4 million for the planned pickleball facility. That recommended budget and amount is expected to come before the GRF Finance Committee and the fu...

Hummel, Pallotta arrive with distinct backgrounds Terry Hummel and Nora Pallotta each bring unique experiences and fresh ideas to Tice Creek Fitness Center. The newest members of the Fitness Center personal training staff started in September within a week of each other and forged a newbies bond. “We’re work besties,” Hummel said with a smile. Sinc...

Steve Schneider is new to Rossmoor life, and he acknowledges that many of his new neighbors “have a hard time grasping what I do.” But he has no trouble articulating what rock climbing can do for the soul. The sport CLIMBER: Feats include first solo ‘speed climb’ at El Capitan United States. He and Heather maintain a home in the Patagonian region o...

But policy still falls far short of full coverage Rossmoor is expected to spend about $6 million less on its master property insurance policy this coming year than had originally been budgeted, but that doesn’t mean GRF can get anything close to full coverage for all the buildings and infrastructure in the valley. The valuation of all those buildin...

insurance budget, to be paid by GRF and the participating Mutuals, for the master policy in 2025 will be about $19.23 million, about $6.3 million less than the $25.55 million that roughly the same level of coverage cost in 2024, said GRF General Manager Jeff Matheson. It hasn’t been decided how that unbudgeted savings will be used, Matheson said; s...

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Questions about timeline, financing persist A town hall-style meeting is planned for late February to answer questions about the long-planned pickleball structure, and many of those questions figure to be about time and money. Ann Mottola, GRF’s director of community services, said the town hall – its date uncertain at press time – will be a platfo...

As Rhona Lishinsky raced into her living room the evening of Oct. 27 upon hearing her smoke alarm blare, she momentarily thought she saw through the window of her Cactus Court manor a fire raging outside. But when she looked more closely, she noticed that the tall flames were actually a reflection from the window and were instead emanating from a p...

Jan. 14 town hall to provide progress report Being “fire wise” involves not only education but repetition, Fran Gibson says. As immediate past president of the Rossmoor Emergency Preparedness Organization (EPO) – and still heavily involved with that group – she’s spent a lot of time hammering home various messages about keeping safe and being prepa...

The pivotal moment in Steph Spadaccini’s career came at the start of her kids’ school year in the early 1970s. Seeing her youngest child walk out the door for his first day of school, she realized that a segment of her life had closed. She recalls asking herself this: “What do I do with the rest of my life now that they’re all in school?” She found...