“Acting Our Lives” class melds writing, physicality into a transformative experience Power of personal expression has long inspired Bobbi Ausubel, who turns 89 this month, and by all indications there appears no letting up. Soon after settling into the routine of Rossmoor about 12 years ago, she started spreading her joy of acting through a class o...

‘Rossmoor Walnut Creek’ voted as the community’s brand name The Marketing Task Force settled on more of its objectives at its March 31 meeting. The task force gave unanimous support to designating Rossmoor Walnut Creek as the brand name for the community, with Rossmoor as a nickname. The Rossmoor Walnut Creek name already has been registered with C...

Elevator stalls happened within a week’s span A Rossmoor couple is speaking out over concerns about elevators after each was trapped in one in their Stanley Dollar Drive building in two incidents in less than a week. Alan Brown went to the March 27 GRF Board meeting to describe during Residents’ Forum how both he and his wife, Dianne, each had been...

Pre-register to dispose of documents The Recreation Department will host Drive-thru Shred Day on Monday, April 28, at the Event Center/Dollar parking lot, 1021 Stanley Dollar Drive. This event offers a convenient and secure way to dispose of confidential documents. Registration opens on Wednesday, April 9, on www.MyRossmoor.com or by calling 1-925-...

The Rossmoor News staff will provide insight on how to get articles, columns and photos into the newspaper during a meeting sponsored by the Rossmoor Activities Council. The program will be held on Tuesday, April 15 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the Fireside Room at Gateway. The editors, writers and photographer of the newspaper will share information a...

Event recalls group’s origins, mission Rossmoor Advocates for Diversity took time to celebrate five years of impactful activism in this community while pointing out how current times have kept the organization’s efforts important. RAD hosted a gathering March 21 in the Fireside Room to recall its origins and cast a gaze at the challenges of today. ...

Directors also approve funds for golf irrigation line The GRF Board last week authorized opening the bid process for new pickleball courts behind the Event Center. The Board voted 8 to 1 at the March 27 meeting to seek competitive bids, pending approval of all permits by the city of Walnut Creek. The vote came hours before the Walnut Creek Planning...

Resident shares insights on preventing fraud When Ken Jonah moved to Rossmoor in July of last year, this community gained an expert on senior scams. Jonah has been quite in demand in recent months in and around Rossmoor. He’s been a regular contributor to this newspaper’s Scam Alert articles. He’s been giving presentations, perhaps to a Mutual that...

Although the GRF Finance Committee still had no financial reports to review, Chief Financial Officer Todd Arterburn told them at last week’s meeting that the finance team is making “huge progress” and is “really, really close” for producing reports after delays tied to the implementation of NetSuite, Rossmoor’s new enterprise resource planning syst...

paying the bills.” Recent behind-the-scenes work has included integrating Public Safety, with all of the cases and incidents being logged into NetSuite. “Those reports were having to be manually generated,” Arterburn explained. “Now, they’re all automatically generated at the end of the day. This gives us much more visibility, responsiveness and ef...