Beat the pandemic blues: Recreation LIVE streams crafts, cooking, travel information Take tours around the world, play trivia, learn to craft or cook and much more with Recreation LIVE, a live streaming interactive channel brought to you by the staff of the Recreation Department. New projects, recipes and journeys are created each week. A link to t...

One of Rossmoor’s native tree species is the California Buckeye, or the California Horse-Chestnut. While other celebrated California natives like Redwoods and Valley Oaks might be described as iconic or majestic, Buckeyes may be more accurately described as tenacious or determined. Evolved to make use of local climate conditions, Buckeyes have seve...

Members of The Connection are invited to a presentation by GRF CEO Tim O’Keefe on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. via Zoom. O’Keefe will discuss current items of interest, including the foundation’s plans for reopening Rossmoor facilities such as the Peacock Hall and the Event Center once the state and county ease or end the COVID-19 lockdown. He also w...

An item in the Security Reports on Jan. 13 incorrectly reported the gender of a driver who was injured Dec. 31 when the person’s car crashed into a tree at Tice Creek Drive and Singingwood Court at about 5:50 p.m. The driver was female.

GRF President Bob Kelso will continue his townhall Q& A sessions on the first Thursday of every month. The next monthly Q& A session will be held Thursday, Feb. 4 at 2 p.m. Kelso will answer residents’ questions live on the video conference website Zoom. Residents are asked to submit their questions prior to the session to grfquestion@rossm...

Rossmoor needs a masterplan to help guide officials, staff and residents when they make plans and budget for Rossmoor’s facilities. So said the Planning Committee on Jan. 14, when it agreed on the specifics a consultant should follow to draw up such a plan. The GRF Board will be asked to approve the guidelines before a request for proposals goes ou...

With the exception of Tice Creek entries AA through 17, the plant replacement program for 2020 has been completed. If residents submitted a request that was not fulfilled or if they missed the original deadline, they can re-submit their request to plantreplacement@rossmoor.com. Landscaping apologizes if it missed anyone, and if a replacement is not...

Café to reopen with new menu Kairi’s Kitchen – and the team behind it at Café Oasis – will temporarily close for the month of January and reopen on Feb. 1. Cafe Oasis Manager Lori Parham said in a letter to customers that the closure will give the restaurant time to reevaluate how to better serve them. “If hindsight is 2020, then our vision has bec...

The Third Mutual Board of Directors is seeking volunteers for an open seat on the board. A vacant board seat is open in District XV, Projects 27, 31 and 32, which includes entries 10, 13, 14, 15 and 16 on Ptarmigan Drive. Any interested District XV owner is invited and encouraged to apply for the board position no later than Feb. 15, at 12 p.m. The...

A story in the Jan. 6 edition about a Zoom program featuring Darren Zook and sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) incorrectly reported the cost of the event. It is $20. A story in the Jan. 6 edition on a Commonwealth Club Middle East Forum event incorrectly reported that Robert Rosenthal co-authored “War of Shadows: Codebreakers...