The newly merged Aquatics and Fitness Advisory Committee has recommended that the GRF Board adopt a series of fee hikes for personal training sessions and reformer Pilates classes taught at the Fitness Center, on the heels of other fee increases tied to the 2024 GRF operating budget. The Board, at its meeting Thursday, Sept. 28, is scheduled to vot...

Told to vacate, restaurant shuts down Oct. 8 Rossmoor Diner, a staple of the community for 35 years, will be closing its doors. Its final day of operation is planned for Sunday, Oct. 8. Grace Soan, owner of the diner since January 2000, said Rossmoor Shopping Center ownership gave her a 30-day notice earlier this month to vacate. Soan said the dine...

Bertha Reilly likened trip to San Francisco in the 1960s Bertha Reilly wants to assure her Rossmoor friends. She traveled to the Burning Man gathering, and she fared just fine. “It was such a fantastic experience,” she said. The Burning Man Project website describes the concept as a “global ecosystem of artists, makers and community organizers who ...

Ashow of hands at a falls-prevention symposium at the Event Center last week revealed that perhaps 40% of those in attendance had suffered a significant fall with the past year. A short time later, a woman in the audience asked aloud why there weren’t more people at this event, sponsored by the Rossmoor Counseling Center. Approximately 125 people w...

The newly merged Aquatics and Fitness Advisory Committee has recommended that the GRF Board adopt a series of fee hikes for personal training sessions and reformer Pilates classes taught at the Fitness Center, on the heels of other fee increases tied to the 2024 GRF operating budget. The Board, at its meeting Thursday, Sept. 28, is scheduled to vot...

Recreation hosts first of three food demos An Ital ian cooking demonst rat ion on Thursday brought residents to the Fireside Room looking to spark their culinary inspiration and engage their taste buds. Recreat ion Act ivit ies Coordinator Elena Ybarra led the demo and sampling, showing the entire preparation process. Audience participation time ca...

GRF portion would be 1.64% higher in 2024 Pending a few likely last-minute adjustments, the GRF portion of the annual coupon for 2024 figures to be $335.32, an increase of $5.40, which is a 1.64% jump from 2023. This figure – which would include cable television/internet – was revealed near the end of the annual joint GRF Board /Finance Committee m...

It will be much more expensive to properly repair all eight courts at the Buckeye Tennis Complex than originally thought, mostly because, for two of the courts, a full repaving and grading will be required. GRF Director of Community Services Ann Mottola and GRF Trust Asset Manager Martijn Lemmens told the GRF Planning Committee on Thursday that cou...

Members of the GRF Board and its Finance Committee said last week they favor spending up to $50,000 for a study of what bus service Rossmoor residents are willing to support, paying for it with money that had been destined to pay for another bus driver. The concept of studying residents’ wants and needs regarding bus service was approved as part of...

Rossmoor’s new guest access protocol is now permanent, as the testing phase which began in February ended in mid-August. Considering the front gate averages 3.4 million entries a year, this undertaking has been no small project, Public Safety Manager Tom Cashion said. “This has been done to make the residents safer, and also guests, workers, the em...