By Mike Wood Staff writer Hearing the name “Bling Fling” can put a smile on anyone’s face. Learning what the annual fundraiser in Rossmoor accomplishes makes that smile even wider. Jane Viator came up with the zippy name in 2017, when she launched efforts here to collect unwanted but wearable jewelry, to be sold to help at-risk youths in Contra Cos...

When Lt. Jeff Slater walked into the Event Center on Thursday for a “Coffee with a Cop” session that he organized, he was stunned to see so many residents. More than 100 residents packed the Event Center’s Donner Room and spilled out into the main hall’s corridors for “Coffee with a Cop,” an informal give-and-take with Slater, the Sector 1 commande...

You’ve probably never been to a groundbreaking event for a brush-clearing campaign, but an upcoming effort to help protect Rossmoor and adjacent parts of Walnut Creek and Lafayette has been deemed important enough to warrant such a kickoff. The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (commonly known as ConFire), along with GRF, will host this ...

The GRF Planning Committee on Thursday voted to recommend that the full GRF Board spend $20,000 on a study of the potential sale or development of two Rossmoor parcels – one of them the Rossmoor Garden Club’s current garden plot. If the GRF Board follows this recommendation, the Walnut Creek-based firm LCA Architects (Loving and Campos) will now do...

STAFF SPOTLIGHT CUSTODIAL SERVICES & AUDIO/VISUAL Rossmoor is a busy place, and somebody’s got to set up all those events and room rentals – and tear them down and clean up after them. (And clean up after everyone else, too.) Enter Rossmoor’s Custodial Services/Audio Visual Department and its 15 workers, who, by 2022 numbers, do more than 2,000...

An October data breach that has potentially impacted millions of Comcast customers has some Rossmoorians concerned about the safety of their personal information. What Comcast described as a “data security incident” has prompted the cable, phone and internet provider to require its customers to change the password to their online Comcast account. A...

Seeking a balance between allowing Rossmoor residents to express themselves freely and publicly, and to do so safely and without creating discord, members of the GRF Policy Committee will discuss over the next three weeks prospective updates to GRF’s “demonstration policy” governing protests within Rossmoor’s confines. The Policy Committee discusse...

Classes based on personality studies a big hit When Ros Carol began presenting personality classes in Rossmoor this past May, she had no idea how popular they would become. These Myers-Briggs Type Indicator classes involve 30 residents who each take a personality test online ahead of the session. Sponsored by Rossmoor Recreation, they are a popular...

As the Golden Rain Foundation and the Mutuals prepared their budgets for 2024, they were based on preliminary estimates for property insurance that was expected to increase by a minimum of 50% due to market conditions. After budgets were adopted, the results of an appraisal for Trust and mutual property showed an increased valuation of over 32%. In...

Members of Rossmoor’s fledgling Firewise USA Committee received a timely gift on Christmas Eve – official certification of their group by the National Fire Protection Association. When Jeroen Wright made the announcement to the 12 other members of the group at their Dec. 27 meeting, applause broke out around the Gateway boardroom. “It was a nice li...