Efforts to balance out the timing of Fitness Center classes to alleviate parking lot congestion seem to be paying off. Time changes for some classes were announced in mid-February and implemented March 1, to improve safety and traffic flow in the parking lot, RWC Fitness and Aquatics Manager Adam Cleary said. Cleary said during the March 12 Fitness...

Just Friends considers a change so they can work with other Rossmoor musicians Walter Barr, Mark Rossi and Terry Miller know Rossmoor is full of accomplished people, including other top-flight musicians. But this trio, all members of the jazz band Just Friends, say it can be difficult to find places to rehearse and play in Rossmoor, even with the h...

Yale Pincus is a guardian of some compelling history, curated from his time in marketing and communications when the aeronautics industry was making giant leaps. That coincided with the “Golden Age” of marketing, when Pincus worked for Hughes Aircraft – part of billionaire Howard Hughes’ colossal business empire. Marketing, communications, graphic ...

Burke Ferrari started out his chairman’s report at March 13’s Golf Advisory Committee meeting with a familiar but fitting trope ‒ “I’ve got some good news, and I’ve got some bad news.” The bad news wasn’t actually “news” in the strictest sense, as most golf-oriented Rossmoorians were well aware of the impending retirement of Director of Golf Mark H...

The Policy Committee on Monday unanimously passed a flag policy that now goes to the RWC Board for final approval. The committee passed the recommendation after member Susan Hildreth made a motion to remove words indicating Rossmoor would remain neutral in deciding to lower the flags and apply the policy uniformly. Hildreth later said her motion wo...

Rossmoor Walnut Creek’s Planning Committee on Thursday voted to recommend that the RWC Board authorize moving to the next phase of the project to replace two golf cart bridges on the Creekside course spanning Tice Creek. The committee’s recommendation calls for up to $122,132 to be allotted to BKF Civil Engineers for Phase II of work on the golf br...

Of the five people sitting at a table at Wednesday’s “Spring into Spring” event at the Fireside Room, one was an immigrant from India, another was a person of British descent who grew up in Chile. A third’s Polish Jewish family fled the German army during World War II to Uzbekistan, where Russian officials sent his parents to Siberia, then back to ...

Joy Alaidarous is a true world traveler, having visited more than 50 countries. That number has only accelerated in the past few years, as she has ventured across the globe in the service of Rotary International. “I’m set to go to Taipei, Taiwan soon, and then to the Philippines,” said Alaidarous, since last July the Rotary International district g...

Residents voice concerns about fate of library Jeff Matheson and David Masenten faced a tough room Friday morning, and a crowded one ‒ it was standing-room only in the Event Center’s main auditorium, with considerable spillover into the adjacent Donner Room. The two were there for a Town Hall meeting to explain what they said would be, if eventuall...

Renovations are about ‘75% complete’; soft launch planned While there still isn’t a set opening date, steady progress is being made on the new Golden Pear restaurant at Creekside, with a “soft opening” planned in the near future ahead of the formal grand opening. Rodney Worth, the chef partnering with Rossmoor Walnut Creek to expand food and bevera...