California Associate Justice Ignazio Ruvolo (Ret.) is the guest speaker at the Rossmoor Rotary Club’s luncheon meeting on Wednesday, March 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Diablo Room at Hillside. His topic will be the California Appellate Court system. Ruvolo was first appointed as an associate justice to the California First District Court ...

FROM SECURITAS The following are the major incidents reported to Securitas, Rossmoor’s security service provider. They appear here as they were initially reported to Securitas. After investigation, details of a case may indicate a lesser or different incident description. If the case warrants it, the News will do a follow-up story. Monday, Feb. 12 ...

Rossmoor residents can vote by mail or in-person for the presidential primary election on Tuesday, March 5. In-person polling will be at the Event Center from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. All registered voters also have received a ballot in the mail. They can then mail in their ballot, drop it off in a secure dropoff location or vote in-person or drop off the ...

Finding long-lasting love Rossmoor offers lots of opportunities for people to get together, stay together B arry Hunau said he was profoundly lonely after Lynn, his wife of 51 years, died in 2021. The retired dentist’s friends recommended he move to Rossmoor, and he did, selling his Lafayette house. He found what he considered a great unit on Ptarm...

T he GRF Planning Committee on Thursday talked about an early iteration of what the former John Muir Health medical building could look like after renovation to include most of the offices now housed in the outdated, overcrowded Mutual Operations Department facility on Rockview Drive. The earliest results of the “Space Use Study” (http:// tinyurl.c...

Fitness Center T he Fitness Center is bringing management back inhouse after the GRF terminated its contract with Active Wellness last week. Active Wellness had worked in Rossmoor since 2017, first as a consultant during the Fitness Center’s major renovation and later as manager of its programs and member services. Over the past year, GRF has slowl...

Some residents can receive a discount on property insurance thanks to Rossmoor’s recognition as a Firewise USA site. Residents can visit the new Firewise page on Rossmoor.com and download or save a copy of Rossmoor’s recognition certificate, which they can share with their insurance provider. The web page is available at https://rossmoor.com/ rossm...

ber Directory, which used to put members with mutual interests in touch with one another via instant messaging. Oman’s key words were “gay,” “theater,” “travel,” “dogs,” “music” and “Bay Area.” Crummer, then a music professor at Evergreen Valley College and living in San Jose, responded immediately. Crummer said his previous partner had died that s...

The Rossmoor News (927080), established April 15, 1965, is published every Wednesday for Rossmoor residents and is available outside of the community at a subscription rate of $145 per year (for first-class mail delivery), by Golden Rain Foundation, 1006 Stanley Dollar Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94595. Periodical postage is paid in Walnut Creek, CA. P...

A photo caption on the front page of the Feb. 7 Arts & Leisure Section gave the incorrect date for the Chinese American Association of Rossmoor’s Lunar New Year celebration. It will be held Saturday, Feb. 24.