Gedeons built beloved dining destination inside the gate Valentine’s Day 2007 was a fitting debut for what would become Creekside Grill and Bar. It heralded a nearly 20year love affair between owners Stan and Ann Gedeon, their staff and the Rossmoor community. “We invited everyone for free champagne and appetizers,” Stan Gedeon recalled during a re...

While they understand change is difficult – in this case, involving the departure of a popular longtime restaurateur – two members of the RWC Board say the upcoming expansion of food service offerings within the gates is what most Rossmoorians want. “We found out what residents expect, and they want more services,” said Leanne Hamaji, Board preside...

Annual Harvest Festival extends thanks to Gateway studios Thanksgiving began three days early in Rossmoor on Nov. 24, and it had nothing to do with the flock of turkeys gathered a block from the Fireside Room. The Interfaith Council of Rossmoor showed its gratitude for the community’s arts and craft studios and clubs surrounding Gateway Plaza by gi...

To Marilyn Powers, age is not a number but rather a state of consciousness. That concept, she said, should be especially welcome in a senior community like Rossmoor. “We can recreate ourselves at any age,” said Powers, who with her husband, Steve Viglione, recently won YouTube’s Silver Creator Award for collecting more than 100,000 subscribers to t...

And residents say those opportunities are appreciated more as we get older Three women, all from different parts of New York City, brought together almost 2,900 miles away by mah jongg in the Redwood Room. They’re all thankful for that, and so much more. “I’m grateful for my good health, two fabulous grandsons, and my wonderful ‘son sons,’ and for ...

Swimmers returned Monday thanks to early completion of replastering The Tice Pools reopened Monday, one week ahead of schedule. This good news for pool users was announced via a Nixle alert to residents. The two indoor pools and a spa, which are part of the Fitness Center complex, had been closed since early October for a replastering project. Afte...

Playing with the Rossmoor Tennis Club, Larry Barclay and Al Peters discovered they had encountered each other in the sporting world long ago, back in the 1950s. They figured they played high school basketball against each other around 1955, when Peters was at Oakland High and Barclay was playing for Berkeley High, although they didn’t know each oth...

A major two-day paving project, which particularly impacted those entering Rossmoor and traveling on segments of Golden Rain Road and Tice Creek Drive, was completed Nov. 19. The project, originally scheduled for October, was delayed because of rain. Rescheduled to start Monday, Nov. 17, rain pushed the project back a day. Despite drizzle, workers ...

Stories both somber and light-hearted mark event Rossmoor’s fifth annual Vets Town Hall, held on Veterans Day at Creekside Clubhouse, featured the usual array of poignant, harrowing and somber accounts from residents who served in the military and experienced the harsh realities of war. But, as in past years, the tears of sadness and loss were inte...

About 130 people attend project milestone It was a gathering Bill Dougherty never would have predicted he would attend. On Friday morning, just south of the Event Center, Dougherty – the founder in 2010 of the Rossmoor Pickleball Club, and its first president – wielded a traditional gold shovel at the groundbreaking ceremony for Rossmoor’s pickleba...