STAFF SPOTLIGHT When the Rossmoor News lands on residents’ doorsteps each Wednesday, it’s the culmination of a weeklong team effort involving editors, writers, a photographer, production artists, sales agents and delivery workers. Each staff member plays a vital role in keeping residents apprised of the people, organizations, activities and busines...

Martie Marchetti describes her level of phone tech savvy as “mediocre.” But as an entry coordinator for her Rockledge Lane neighbors, she knows that she had to bone up on her emergency preparedness. So, Marchetti spent part of her June 22 morning at the Emergency Alerts Fair hosted by the Computer Club of Rossmoor and the Rossmoor Emergency Prepare...

Lorie Hill’s advocacy for social justice and wide-ranging work with others – from youths to prison inmates – have been recognized by her alma mater, Grinnell College. Hill, a psychologist, educator, social and political activist who has lived in Rossmoor for four years, was honored with a 2023 Alumni Award by the Iowa college. The college cited her...

Mobility a major driver for in-home services House calls to see patients are so last century. Or are they? With a rapidly aging population where declining mobility is an increasing and unavoidable reality, a few local professionals in the health and personal care fields have carved out a niche that is harkening back to those simpler times when hous...

Susan Daniels went June 16 to Hillside to pick up a week’s worth of frozen meals, as she had done the eight to 10 previous Fridays. Using a walker, Daniels was moving slowly. “I have serious back issues,” she said. These prepared meals, she said, have been a godsend, as her physical problems make going to the store and preparing meals at home diffi...

Rossmoor’s largest multigenerational event is the Fourth of July celebration. Presenting this celebration of the nation’s birthday takes months of planning. Members of the GRF Recreation Department are putting the finishing touches together and preparing to set up the Dollar Picnic Grounds for the Tuesday, July 4, festivities, which start at 10 a.m...

John Nutley preserved history of Rossmoor John Nutley, widely acknowledged as Rossmoor’s preeminent historian and who was one of Rossmoor’s longest- tenured residents – at 50 years, quite possibly the lon- gest – died on June 12 at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Walnut Creek. He was 98. His stepson, Rossmoor resident Don Thompson, said Nutley ...

Longtime Rossmoor resident Shing-Yi (S.Y.) Huang, 99, died June 21 after a brief illness. Huang, who would have turned 100 on July 12, was a career international civil servant with the United Nations Secretariat and a co-founder of the Chinese American Association of Rossmoor (CAAR). Huang and his wife, Carrie, discovered Rossmoor on the advice of ...

Donner, longtime director, to retire Aug. 1 Jeroen Wright already had a pretty good feel for Rossmoor when he got here, starting June 12 as GRF’s new director of Mutual Operations. He came over from BrightView Landscape Services, which does substantial contracting work with GRF. Wright was a vice president and senior branch manager there and had al...

New theater lighting ‘opens world of possibilities’ By David Scholz Staff writer Call it a riddle in the theater – what shines on stage but never says a word? Answer – stage lighting. Its presence at the Performing Arts Studio has taken a giant leap forward with a $20,000 upgrade. Enhancement of the stage lighting capabilities was more than three y...