Every year, the GRF Board searches for volunteers among the residents to serve on advisory committees whose efforts help shape decisions, policies and rules for everything from the coupon to the golf courses, pools and Fitness Center. This year, eight volunteers are needed for the five com- mittees, including two each for aquatics, audit and financ...

Club correspondent Now that the Computer Center in the Gateway Clubhouse is open, additional volunteers are needed to cover the weekday shifts. A team of two volunteers works at the center one two-hour shift a week. There are two kinds of volunteers – center volunteers and technical specialists. Read these descriptions and see if you could join the...

The article on the GRF Board meeting in the May 4 paper incorrectly stated that the increased Membership Transfer Fee takes effect July 1. The increase actually takes effect Sept. 1. A story on Page 12A of the May 4 News incorrectly reported the name of the Mutual that is seeking volunteers for an open seat on the board. It is Mutual 50. A story on...

Saying the GRF Board needs a more robust and more predictable source of funding to complete a decade’s worth of proposed major infrastructure projects, Board members on Thursday – at the Board’s first live, in-person meeting in 10 months – unanimously approved raising the Membership Transfer Fee from $10,000 to $12,000 this year and by a minimum of...

Meeting sets stage for May 15 evacuation drill Rossmoor residents heard vital messages at a wildfire preparation community meeting held last week at the Event Center. In advance of the Sunday, May 15, wildfire evacuation drill that will involve Mutual 68, residents were reassured that the public agencies that protect them have detailed plans in cas...

A significant error led the Accounting Department to miss processing property taxes for the three cooperative Mutuals in April, resulting in a penalty of $761,000, CFO Joel Lesser told the GRF Finance Committee last week. The Accounting Department, which has faced staffing issues because of a medical leave and high turnover resulting partly from th...

Residents of Rossmoor and elsewhere in Walnut Creek and beyond will soon be able to order adult-use cannabis from local delivery businesses, but it’s likely to be at least a few years before the city will host a storefront cannabis business. Renee Lee, president and founder of the Rossmoor- based Compassion Soci- Rossmoor resident Renee Lee speaks ...

Pickleball Club players fill the Buckeye Tennis Complex to simulate eight courts of play for a sound study last week. News photo by Dan Rosenstrauch Omar Ramos, an acoustical consultant, records the sound levels of pickleball play at the Buckeye Tennis Complex. News photo by Dan Rosenstrauch

Four catalytic converter thefts reported over a five-day span in Rossmoor point to a problem that hasn’t entirely gone away. Two of the thefts involved vehicles that had been parked at the RV lot near the Mutuals Operations Department (MOD), according to reports made to Securitas. On April 23, a resident reported that his catalytic converter was st...

Bicyclists ignore, take down signs The COVID pandemic may have helped get more hikers out on area trails, including those in Rossmoor. But Larry Barclay said more bicyclists appeared on those same trails, too. While hikers are supposed to be on those trails, bicycles aren’t. “There are quite a few people who think that this is a significant problem...