Rossmoor resident Nancy Munson, the founder of Pickleball 4 Parkinson’s (P4P), was recently honored by CBS Bay Area with its Icon Award, which recognizes local community leaders who do outstanding service to make the Bay Area a better place. The first Icon Awards were presented in 2025, when they replaced the Jefferson Awards, which had been given ...

Joe McBride’s presentation on vegetation in Rossmoor covered a lot of ground, from history’s lessons to today’s formidable wildfire threat. McBride, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of forestry and landscape architecture, gave an informative talk followed by a lively Q& A session on March 31 in the Fireside Room during the first of the Rossmoor...

Resident recalls brush with real ‘Marty Supreme’ When the movie “Marty Supreme” came out, Al Schwartz had to see it. It wasn’t just because of the drama’s table tennis theme. Schwartz, who’s played the sport since he was a kid, had encountered the real-life table tennis hustler behind the movie’s main character. The film centers on Marty Mauser, a ...

Planning and budgeting help with wear and tear Elevators can be an attractive lure for new residents. But like any facet of infrastructure, especially those involving transport, they age and often require service. Elevators issues have been a regular occurrence in the Security Reports in this newspaper in the past several months, often involving re...

Members also hear more from residents on Gateway proposal The Rossmoor Walnut Creek Board on Thursday seems poised to adopt a procedure for flying official flags, which includes adhering to either federal or state policy governing when flags are lowered to half-staff. These new procedures, which had their first reading before the Board last week, w...

As a young boy, Eric Howard would hike with his friends from behind Saint Mary’s College in Moraga up the hill and look out over the valley that, a few years later, would become Rossmoor. After that, he said, when Rossmoor ‒ then known as Leisure World ‒ had its big globe outside the front gates, he saw young miscreants put laundry soap in the pond...

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...