The City of Hope tours are back. That’s great news to those Rossmoor residents who love making the monthly casino bus rides that benefit important medical research. To their great thrill, those monthly adventures around Northern California resumed in May. Most significantly, this longstanding Rossmoor tradition raises funds for the City of Hope cli...

Passion” is a word that routinely comes out of Kristine Drinovsky’s mouth when talking about her career in the clinical exercise and fitness industry. “I have a passion for helping people,” Drinovsky told the Fitness Center Advisory Committee on July 13, upon being introduced as the center’s new manager. Drinovsky brings to Tice Creek Fitness Cente...

A shortage of news carriers means some homes may not receive the Rossmoor News until Thursday. Residents are asked to wait until Thursday at 1 p.m. to report a missed delivery. When we know about an absence in advance, residents will be notified in the newspaper a week prior. However, because of illnesses, we may not know all addresses affected in ...

Pool hours without lifeguards? ‘So far, so good,’ says official After some initial reticence, swimmers at the Dollar and Hillside pools appear to be growing used to getting in the pool without lifeguards around. It’s a situation unlikely to change anytime soon, as there’s no evidence the shortage of lifeguards in Rossmoor, or in much of the United ...

Lapidary Studio has display of some of his art Sometimes it’s the smallest of things that can have the greatest value – in more ways than one – and John Bernardin has been proving that for four decades. A retired research chemist and assistant director of the regional U.S. Department of Agriculture facility in Albany, this three-year resident of Ro...

The Rossmoor Chamber Music Society is a much-loved, integral and revered part of Rossmoor’s arts community. So is Rosemarie Krovoza. After 12 years as the society’s president in which she has been a catalyst behind countless performances presented in Rossmoor, Krovoza has decided to retire. She will remain active in the music community. “I love bei...

Atown hall workshop will be held Thursday, July 14, in the Donner Room at the Event Center to give residents a chance to learn and ask questions about the Facilities Master Plan before it is adopted by the GRF Board, potentially later this month. The meeting is scheduled from 1 to 2 p.m., with Director of Resident Services Jeff Matheson providing a...

Residents are invited to submit suggestions to rename Berm Park, which starts off Tice Creek Drive and runs parallel of Golden Rain Road. The idea to rename the park came up during a Policy Committee meeting. The Board last month agreed that the park should have a more inspired name than “Berm,” which is defined as a path or grass strip beside a ro...

Board also decides to raise pay for News carriers Over the objections of a group of residents who favored a sound study before starting design work, the GRF Board on Thursday voted unanimously to hire a landscape architecture firm to design a pickleball complex near the Event Center. A second firm will conduct a sound study of how noise generated b...

CROCKETT – John Siebert was clearly in his element in the old Odd Fellows Hall building in the shadow of the massive C& H Sugar refining mill at the center of this onetime company town. Siebert was talking with various people coming to look at the scale model trains that now consume much of this sizeable structure. “This is a great way to meet ...