The Rossmoor Fund is seeking applicants to serve on its board of directors. Candidates should be Rossmoor residents, and the Fund board is particularly interested in applicants with legal, accounting or marketing skills. The Rossmoor Fund is a 501(c)(3) organization that raises money to support residents, focusing on the emergency needs of those li...

Rossmoor’s Wood Shop at Gateway Center will again be offering its knife-sharpening service on two Friday mornings in August, on Aug. 5 and 19. The sharpening meisters, Al Kaufman and his brother John, will be there from the shop’s opening at 9 a.m. until noon. Knives can be dropped off in the morning when the shop opens and picked up later anytime ...

FROM SECURITAS The following are the major incidents reported to Securitas, Rossmoor’s security service provider. They appear here as they were initially reported to Securitas. After investigation, details of a case may indicate a lesser or different incident description. Friday, July 22 Building damage: An American Medical Response supervisor repo...

Rossmoor’s Public Safety Manager, Tom Cashion, will be at the Republican Club’s Sunday, Aug. 7, Meet & Greet to talk with residents and answer their questions. The Rossmoor Republican Club invites all like-minded people to their monthly Meet & Greet, on Sunday, Aug. 7, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Oak Room in the Gateway Clubhouse. Attendees are...

CEO Tim O’Keefe announced to the GRF Board and staff on July 18 that he will be retiring on Nov. 15. O’Keefe has served as CEO of the Golden Rain Foundation since November 2015, including the past 2½ years during the COVID-19 pandemic. His contract was not set to expire until June 30, 2024. “It’s been a great job, and I’ve loved working here,” O’Ke...

Here is a statement by Jeff Matheson, Rossmoor’s director of resident services, about the GRF response to the drought, and to more expensive water: “ The ongoing ‘mega’ drought continues to impact the western region of the United States This unprecedented drought has resulted in the need to conserve water. The State of California and the East Bay M...

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...

The Dog Park Fourth of July Freedom Dog Parade (aka “Oliver’s Independence Day Party”) was a great success. There were some interesting, funny, patriotic dog costumes. The owners outdid themselves with their creativity, and judges Carole Barlin and Steve Smith had a hard time selecting the best to award the trophies. The fun dog race was well recei...

– they’re just too (physically) hard,” he said. On one of those trips, Bernardin traveled to Africa to meet with geologist and gem dealer Campbell Bridges, a mining executive with holdings in Kenya and elsewhere and generally acknowledged as the discoverer of tsavorite, a dark green gemstone. Bernardin bought some stones from Bridges, a transaction...

The article in the July 6 News about the Finance Committee incorrectly stated that The Waterford is excluded from the GRF 2021 surplus of $2,711,412. All Mutuals, including the Waterford receive that distribution. The Waterford is excluded from the MOD surplus of $930,004, which will be distributed to all of the other Mutuals.