As a young boy, Eric Howard would hike with his friends from behind Saint Mary’s College in Moraga up the hill and look out over the valley that, a few years later, would become Rossmoor. After that, he said, when Rossmoor ‒ then known as Leisure World ‒ had its big globe outside the front gates, he saw young miscreants put laundry soap in the pond...

With heat advisories in the West and tornados and blizzards in the East, many blood drives are being cancelled, yet the need for blood is going up. Help keep the supply available. Nothing replaces blood! Residents are urged to donate Tuesday, April 14 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the Fireside Room. Sign up for an appointment to make a vital differe...

The Echo Club at Rossmoor (TECAR) holds a quarterly forum to discuss a variety of topics of concern to the Mutuals. In addition, TECAR provides its members with access to important educational materials via Echo’s website, publications and events, including professional webinars. Rossmoor homeowners, especially board members, are invited to the nex...

The Landscape Department has recently removed its annual flowers and made them available to interested residents on a first-come, firstserved basis. The plantings are available against the big wall at the Recycling Yard off Rockview Drive. They can be picked up during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 4...

The German Club’s next meeting will take place Tuesday, April 7 at 5:30 p.m. at Dollar Clubhouse. Members should bring their own utensils and drinks and some tasty bites. Attendance was excellent at the March meeting, as 31 members came. The club remembered and honored its founder, who worked hard to get the club started.

Efforts to balance out the timing of Fitness Center classes to alleviate parking lot congestion seem to be paying off. Time changes for some classes were announced in mid-February and implemented March 1, to improve safety and traffic flow in the parking lot, RWC Fitness and Aquatics Manager Adam Cleary said. Cleary said during the March 12 Fitness...

Just Friends considers a change so they can work with other Rossmoor musicians Walter Barr, Mark Rossi and Terry Miller know Rossmoor is full of accomplished people, including other top-flight musicians. But this trio, all members of the jazz band Just Friends, say it can be difficult to find places to rehearse and play in Rossmoor, even with the h...

Yale Pincus is a guardian of some compelling history, curated from his time in marketing and communications when the aeronautics industry was making giant leaps. That coincided with the “Golden Age” of marketing, when Pincus worked for Hughes Aircraft – part of billionaire Howard Hughes’ colossal business empire. Marketing, communications, graphic ...

Burke Ferrari started out his chairman’s report at March 13’s Golf Advisory Committee meeting with a familiar but fitting trope ‒ “I’ve got some good news, and I’ve got some bad news.” The bad news wasn’t actually “news” in the strictest sense, as most golf-oriented Rossmoorians were well aware of the impending retirement of Director of Golf Mark H...

The Rossmoor Fund continues its 2026 educational series with an important seminar on the latest trends in scams, fraud and identity theft. The event will be held on Wednesday, April 15, at 10:30 a.m. in the Creekside Club Room. This informative session will feature JáNae Powell, staff attorney with Contra Costa Senior Legal Services (CCSLS). Attend...