– 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.

Board also decides to raise pay for News carriers Over the objections of a group of residents who favored a sound study before starting design work, the GRF Board on Thursday voted unanimously to hire a landscape architecture firm to design a pickleball complex near the Event Center. A second firm will conduct a sound study of how noise generated b...

CROCKETT – John Siebert was clearly in his element in the old Odd Fellows Hall building in the shadow of the massive C& H Sugar refining mill at the center of this onetime company town. Siebert was talking with various people coming to look at the scale model trains that now consume much of this sizeable structure. “This is a great way to meet ...

Aiming to build upon encouraging results from the first year, organizers of the Dementia and Diabetes Prevention Program study are gearing up for year two in Rossmoor. The program, a partnership between UC Davis and Tice Creek Fitness Center, is built upon taking preventative measures with diet and exercise. Organizers will be seeking new qualified...

With rates likely facing another costly hike for 2023, the GRF and Mutuals are exploring possible alternatives for property insurance that would avoid a deductible increase from $250,000 to $1 million. Chief Financial Officer Joel Lesser told the Finance Committee last week that many insurance renewals set to occur July 1 are seeing rate increases ...

He worked in a variety of jobs over the years, including as an inspector for organic food production; with the Pleasant Hill-based White Pony Express nonprofit working to ease hunger; as an educator at Purdue University and UC Davis; and, for 22 years, as an agricultural economics professor at Texas A& M University in College Station. He and hi...

Shred Day returns to the Gateway parking lot on Monday, July 18, from 9 a.m. to noon, or until the truck is full. Residents are asked to place boxes/bags of items to shred in the trunk and remain in the car. Staff will pop the truck and remove the boxes/bags. Place payment in an envelope next to the boxes or bags to be shred. Check or cash only. Ex...

GRF Planning Committee The GRF Planning Committee voted on June 23 to recommend pursuing study of an area just southwest of the Event Center as a prospective home for a new pickleball facility, opting for it over sites at the Buckeye Tennis Complex and the existing pickleball courts at Creekside. Included in this will be hiring a landscape architec...

Leak stopped on north end of Golf Pond At the beginning of the year, there was an ominous display on the north end of the golf course pond, near the weir and spillway. “The water would literally bubble up from the ground,” Rossmoor golf course crews in March patched a leak in the golf pond floor near the concrete spillway that is delaying the need ...