Golden Pear offers discounts at owner’s other restaurants The restaurant replacing the Creekside Grill is quickly taking shape with lots of progress being made, including a name change. Initially expected to be called The Pear at Rossmoor, the restaurant in the Creekside Complex will now be known as The Golden Pear. “A golden pear symbolizes prospe...

Add another to the list of peculiar morning sightings in Rossmoor: A small group of cows taking a stroll in a neighborhood. Around 9 a.m. Saturday, a small group of cattle that got loose from an area ranch were seen roaming around some Terra Granada Drive manors near entries 7 and 9. Jim Pearson had finished a hike when he saw the cows. He was amon...

Surrounded by a sizable audience inside the Sewing Arts Studio, Gerri Pymm and her quilting works were on center stage. With many – but not all – of her quilts on display along the studio walls, Pymm told the audience stories and shared the inspiration behind them. This produced a flood of memories and a lot of attention. This event, called a trunk...

More than 50 people gathered on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday Jan. 15 to trade quotes, laugh, sing and even shed a few tears. Sponsored by the African Americans and Friends Club, the open mic event in the Fairway Room at Creekside drew a variety of people celebrating not only King but their favorite civil rights icons. Mary Taylor, co-chairpers...

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Upon becoming the first member of his family to pursue a college education, Raul Arana Jr. faced several obstacles, any of which could have torpedoed his quest. “My educational journey was shaped by instability, financial hardship and the constant pressure of being a first-generation student in an immigrant household,” he says. One of these issues ...

Are you tired of people saying negative things about others? Are you bothered by intense polarization and division? Come and join a pilot program that Rossmoor Advocates for Diversity (RAD) is starting Feb. 5. At RAD’s new monthly gatherings, the club will examine experiences and work together in groups to discover new ways to create a caring, incl...

The Rossmoor News (927080), established April 15, 1965, is published on Wednesdays for Rossmoor residents and is available outside of the community at a subscription rate of $185 per year (for first-class mail delivery), by Golden Rain Foundation, 1006 Stanley Dollar Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94595. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Rossmoor Ne...

RAA sees increase in popularity of classes Lined up against a wall in Art Studio 2 are 10 paintings, all inspired by the same image of a tree growing alongside the seashore. But these small artworks aren’t the same, differentiated, sometimes more than a little, by their shading, shadows, even the colors themselves. In this review of her students’ w...

Golf director: 2025 may have been ‘best year ever’ Crediting a combination of a relatively dry winter, a lack of stifling hot summer days and an increase in interest in golf in general, Rossmoor Director of Golf Mark Heptig said that 2025 was a banner year for RWC’s golf program. Heptig told the Golf Advisory Committee on Jan. 9 that in 2025, there...