With Mother’s Day coming up Sunday, May 9, the Contra Costa Section of the nonprofit National Council of Jewish Women is selling Equal Exchange’s fair trade and organic chocolates for the occasion, which will be delivered to homes inside Rossmoor. Rossmoor residents can order in bundles of three, any (or all) of five varieties – dark chocolate oran...

Keeping up with scams ‘a continuous battle,’ says Public Safety Manager Tom Cashion said keeping up with the seemingly endless list of senior scams has been “a continuous battle” ever since he started his career with Walnut Creek police. Now Rossmoor’s public safety manager, Cashion spent more than two decades with WCPD dealing with everything from...

Nervous residents were promised there will be a “live” drill in the coming months to test how well emergency plans will work if a wildfire roars into Rossmoor. The assurances were made during an April 15 online program that was to feature PG& E’s statewide wildfire safety program. But instead, it drew attention to how prepared local agencies ar...

Topic is on the agenda for the GRF Board Contra Costa County eclipsed its goal of 1 million COVID-19 vaccinations more than a month ahead of schedule, with 68% of its residents who are 16 or older receiving at least one dose of the vaccine. Recognizing how vaccines have changed the landscape, California officials are allowing social gatherings agai...

Diabetes and Alzheimer’s might seem like completely different diseases, “but we know from the science that they are actually very related,” says Dr. David K. Johnson, a professor of neurology at UC Davis and director of the university’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Walnut Creek. Dr. Johnson is looking to build on that science in Rossmoor through t...

In lockdown, room receives a makeover When the Redwood Room at Gateway reopens, residents will see a whole new look. Just about everything has changed except for things that couldn’t – the grand piano, widescreen TV, carpeting and the brick fireplace with adjacent bookshelves. There’s new color, furniture, knickknacks and even USB ports for residen...

The days of being able to bypass the area code when making a local phone call are numbered. As of Oct. 24, all local calls in the 925 area code will require callers to dial the area code before entering the seven-digit number (the same process currently required for placing calls to a different area code), according to new rules adopted by the Fede...

Online offers wealth of information As residents called about the plants list and having landscaping requests fulfilled, Landscape Manager Rebecca Pollon recognized a need. So, she turned to Rossmoor’s website, Rossmoor.com, to help build a 13-page online section dedicated to landscaping in Rossmoor. Rossmoor.com features a section of pages dedicat...

John Moe said he has been recycling long before it was commonplace. He’s come a long way from the days of his childhood when garbage was simply burned. Most of the garbage produced in the 1950s, he said, burned easily. That isn’t the case anymore, said Moe, president of First Mutual and “Green Rossmoor” columnist for the Rossmoor News, especially g...

Armando Medina, a Rossmoor custodian for the past 13 years, had almost arrived at his Pittsburg home after work on April 12 when he saw brake lights in front of him, and people in the middle of West Leland Road waving for traffic to stop. He came across a mangled Toyota Corolla, and two young girls lying in the roadway. There also was, he said, a c...