The Rossmoor Holiday Food Drive returns, just in time for Thanksgiving, but will look very different because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of collecting food in Rossmoor, this year’s drive will ask residents to make monetary donations to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. As in past years, the event is sponsored by the Interfaith Council...

Tice pools were forced to close last Friday, followed by the Fitness Center and Creekside Grill indoor dining on Tuesday, as Contra Costa County tried to halt rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Indoor pools were shuttered last week after the California Department of Public Health moved the county back to the restrictive red tier on Tuesday...

Arecent wildfire seminar hosted by the Rossmoor Emergency Preparedness Organization prompted quite a few questions about emergency evacuation notices. Quite a few means of communications will be used to notify Rossmoor residents in the event of an evacuation. First, the Contra Costa County Wa rning System (CWS) will be used. The CWS will notify lan...

Honoring Rossmoor’s veterans of war In Vietnam, Neil Fiore served in 101st Airborne Neil Fiore, who served in the 101st Airborne Division (dubbed the Screaming Eagles) during the Vietnam War, is not a fan of war – “war is crazy, it’s stupid,” he said – but he wants veterans to get the respect they deserve. “I wear my 101st Airborne hat because of t...

In honor of Veterans Day, I would like to introduce one of our more senior Rossmoor resident veterans, former U. S. Women’s Army Corps (WAC) private first class Leona Shahani. In fall 1943, Shahani was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin. While in college, she was very much aware of the war as she watched the young men in the ROTC “training f...

George Ivanov has been named Rossmoor TV Channel 28 station manager. He replaces Susan Ritner, who retired in July. Ivanov, who was studio coordinator, had filled in on an interim basis. “George has been a quiet, driving force behind the great work at Channel 28 for years, but during the pandemic and subsequent shutdown, he has really shined,” Comm...

Some fitness and aquatics classes resume Assistant and managing editors The Tice Creek indoor pool facility can reopen for recreational swimming — at least for now. Because of continued gains in reducing the transmission of COVID-19, California moved Contra Costa County from the red tier to the less-restrictive orange tier on Oct. 27, allowing for ...

GRF Board meeting Up to $250,000 will be spent on modifications to GRF buildings’ HVAC systems to help limit the indoor spread of COVID-19. System upgrades for air purification would be made throughout Rossmoor, from the Fitness Center and Gateway to Hillside, Creekside, the Event Center, and more. “The recommendation of the CDC is to make modifica...

Smoky air from wildfires prompted the closure of the Hillside and Dollar swimming pools on 13 days during August through October. And on Sept. 9, the air was so thick with smoke that Kaiser Permanente called off its outdoor flu clinic at Gateway after three hours when people started getting sick. Because of the growing concerns around the health im...

No-shows at Dollar and Hillside pools have continued from the summer into fall, even as some residents have trouble finding a desirable reservation time for the two outdoor pools. As many as 200 swimmers were no-shows in a given week during the summer. And while those numbers slipped to just over 40 per week in late September, they still leave resi...