Bathroom backups prompt change Fancy new ultra-quiet electric hand dryers in the three main Event Center restrooms were turned on for the first time on March 15, blowing hot air the same day that paper hand towels were removed from those same places for the final time. And those towels were taken away none too soon, either, Avi Singh said, as they ...

Though fairly new to his role as building maintenance manager for First Mutual, Dave Peakes has an abundance of experience in Rossmoor. Peakes, who has worked here since 1990, became building maintenance manager for Rossmoor’s oldest and largest Mutual in August after Doug Hughs retired after 20 years. Peakes worked for the previous 12 years as an ...

Remembering Tom Huster One of the things Tom Huster loved was dancing. He and his wife, Sunhi Kim, had taken dance lessons for several years, and had gone out dancing two nights in a row the weekend before Tom died. “If there was music playing in the grocery store and you asked if he wanted to dance, he’d say, ‘I’m in,’ ” his daughter, Beth Roens, ...

Popular event back following winter break Even during the bleakest winter weather, residents kept asking Recreation Manager Kelly Berto one question. “When is Night Market on the Plaza coming back?” The answer is Tuesday, April 4. After a winter hiatus, Tuesday nights at Peacock Plaza from 4 to 8 p.m. will feature a weekly rotation of three food tr...

One of the first things Lu Lynn de Silva noticed when she moved to Rossmoor from Piedmont last year was the Civility Task Force and the work it was doing to help improve neighborly relations in Rossmoor. And there was plenty to do. “I started to witness some of this first-hand – at CVS, at the (Creekside) restaurant – I saw a lot of frustration, im...

An accident that killed a Rossmoor resident when a massive eucalyptus tree fell onto the vehicle he was traveling in has raised the issue of tree safety to unprecedented heights. Tom Huster, 79, died the evening of March 21 when the Telsa he was a passenger in was struck by the fallen tree during a powerful windstorm that included what meteorologis...

Senate candidate most recent politician to visit Nancy Kors is a big fan of U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee – so much so, Kors told Lee in person last week at the Event Center, that she wants to work on Lee’s campaign in some capacity. Kors was one of approximately 350 people who turned out for the March 15 appearance by Lee, D-Oakland, one of three Democrat...

Down trees, outages hit Rossmoor – again Another round of storms that slammed Rossmoor in mid-March served as a reminder of how important it is to know what to do when power outages hit. Power was knocked out for a segment of Rossmoor between March 14 and 15, as a powerful atmospheric river storm was followed by strong winds that wreaked havoc thro...

Robert Frank’s earliest memory of doing a crossword puzzle was sitting in his great uncle Edward’s lap and tackling the word “nonsmoking.” Decades and thousands of crossword puzzles later, both playing and making them, his latest one, a co-authored piece titled “Come Clean,” is slated to appear in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, March 27. Frank,...

GRF Policy Committee Political columns will be returning to the Rossmoor News on a trial rotation basis, a decision that arose out of discussion at the March 15 Policy Committee meeting at Gateway’s Board Room. This ends a hiatus of the resident-written columns that began with the Feb. 1 edition of the News. The columns will return in the March 29 ...