Nearly 40 services on hand at Health Fair Cicely Chin emerged from getting her blood pressure checked, beaming one of the brightest smiles seen during last week’s Health Fair. This was Chin’s first time at the Health Fair, after she moved here two years ago. She wanted to see whether her blood pressure that day matched what was taken by her doctor ...

With her last client retiring, Gail Strack is doing the same. This ends an adventurous work journey for Strack, 86, who carved out a career as a female business owner when that wasn’t the norm. She made her mark in medical transcription, as a traveling notary, and earlier as a teacher. When Dr. Gary Aguilar, a San Francisco ophthalmologist and Stra...

That Carol Amaya was alive and present at Saturday’s Emergency Preparedness Fair was proof she knows the value of being prepared for disaster. Amaya, who heads up Mutual 40’s emergency preparedness committee, lost her home in the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise. “I wanted to come in, see what the emergency preparedness materials were all about, and also...

“Neighbors helping neighbors” was the theme of a Rossmoor Fund donor campaign in 2023-24, and volunteer officials still use that term to describe what the Fund does ‒ help hundreds of fellow residents each year who experience urgent financial needs. And while the Fund still depends on residents’ individual donations to make a difference in helping ...

The Rossmoor Walnut Creek (RWC) Board on Thursday approved a $362.98 RWC monthly coupon for 2027, up $11.47 (3.26%) from this year’s coupon. The 2027 coupon is based on a 2027 RWC operating budget of $29,078,760, also approved Thursday, which is up 3.83% from 2026. The 2027 Rossmoor Property Management (RPM) budget of $13,467,044, a 10% jump from 2...

LGBTQ+ Alliance, partner clubs to host Oct. 2 symposium Rossmoor’s LGBTQ+ Alliance, together with a number of co-sponsoring clubs and the support of the Rossmoor Fund and the Rossmoor Rotary Club, will host “A Day of Listening, Learning and Unity – Rossmoor Stands United Against Hate,” a three-hour community symposium on Friday, Oct. 2 at 1 p.m. at...

With the Nov. 3 general election just over a month away, timing was good for the Rossmoor Rotary Club to host a talk about statewide initiatives. Janet Hoy and Audra Ruthruff of the League of Women Voters Diablo Valley spoke at the Rotary Club’s weekly meeting on Sept. 23 in Hillside’s Diablo Room, giving pro-andcon overviews on seven of the 14 sta...

If voters approve the Acalanes Union High School District’s Measure W parcel tax in the Nov. 3 election, its impact on Rossmoor’s 3,368 cooperative housing units will be much different from other properties here. That’s because co-ops are not individually owned, as condominiums and single-family residences are. So instead of MEASURE W: Owners would...

Efforts by resident volunteers bear fruit A Firewise town hall delved last week into the finer points of Rossmoor’ fire mitigation efforts and Firewise’s impact within the community. Topics ranging from defensible space to recent savings on insurance costs and how a remote-controlled “super mower” clears hillsides, were touched on during the Sept. ...

Inspired by fellow resident, Teresa Cheng goes skydiving Teresa Cheng had long considered jumping out of an airplane but had never followed through on it until one recent day at the Fitness Center, when she saw Bob Miller. A story about Miller’s skydiving exploits had been featured in the July 8 Rossmoor News, and both he and Cheng go to the Fitnes...