Sustainable Rossmoor’s Trash Talk (Recycling) Committee resumes its in-person meetings on Wednesday, July 21, at 10 a.m. in Multipurpose Room 3 at Gateway. The meeting is open to everyone. Participants will resume brainstorming solutions to such problems as how to make trash enclosures more user-friendly and what to do about neighbors who don’t sor...

The recent reopening guidelines that allow fully vaccinated Californians to drop their masks while indoors has been met with reservations by some residents who are still concerned about COVID-19. In particular, several residents have asked if they can require a repair or general contractor to wear a mask when entering their home. State health offic...

Plans are for the results of that survey, along with information gathered from the June 15 workshops and three earlier smaller focus groups, to be brought to the July 8 GRF Planning Committee meeting for the committee’s input. Ultimately, Masenten said, the goal is to have a draft 10-year improvement and funding plan ready sometime in October. Dwig...

Entry dumpsters throughout Rossmoor have been misunderstood. All our lives we have been encouraged to not litter and to dispose of our trash in a proper receptacle – the trash can! Why then, can’t Rossmoor residents use the dumpsters in the trash enclosures for all their refuse needs? The simple answer is that the dumpsters in the trash enclosures ...

A caption in the June 9 News mislabeled who was in the photo. It should have read “Murphy and Steve Nieman, along with Amber, will be walking in the Sneakers and Paws Hospice East Bay fundraiser.” The June 2 letter headline “It’s time to represent women with trails’ names” indicated a solution that the letter itself did not propose. The letter writ...

Interested in what the future of Rossmoor’s facilities will look like? Residents are invited to a community workshop for Rossmoor’s Long-Range Capital Improvement Plan on Tuesday, June 15, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Event Center. Attendance will be limited to 80 participants. The GRF has partnered with a team led by ELS Architecture and Urban Design t...

The Rossmoor LGBT Alliance Pride Fundraiser kicked off in mid-May, with a goal of raising at least $10,000 to benefit three local agencies addressing food insecurity and other needs in the county. The agencies are the Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano, Assistance League of Diablo Valley and the Rainbow Community Center’s Senior Food Program. O...

The Black Lives Matter Committee of the African American and Friends Club will sponsor “One Year Later: The Trauma and the Progress,” a Zoom program, on Wednesday, June 9 starting at 6:30 p.m. The featured speaker will be Gigi R. Crowder, a graduate of UC Berkeley and the executive director of the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), Contra ...

The Rossmoor News (927080), established April 15, 1965, is published every Wednesday for Rossmoor residents and is available outside of the community at a subscription rate of $55 per year (for second-class mail delivery), by Golden Rain Foundation, 1006 Stanley Dollar Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94595. Periodical postage is paid in Walnut Creek, CA. P...

Residents applying for a REAL ID from the Department of Motor Vehicles no longer are required to provide a Social Security card or W-2 form proving they have a Social Security number, the DMV announced last month. Under the new rules, applicants can now simply provide their Social Security number, along with proof of identity and two proofs of Cali...