Rossmoor’s Woodshop Club at Gateway will offer its knife-sharpening service on Friday, Feb. 16. Sharpening brothers Al Kaufman and John Kaufman will be there from opening time at 9 a.m. until noon as usual. Knives can be dropped off in the morning when the shop opens, and should be picked up by 4 p.m. when the shop closes. Sharpening is skillfully ...

Because of a heater malfunction, The Tice Creek Lap Pool has temporarily closed, and Hillside Pool has opened for lap swimming and Masters swimming. Hillside’s outdoor pool reopened Monday, Feb. 5. Hillside will be open in February from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day, except Tuesday when it doesn’t open until 1 p.m. because of pool cleaning. The pool i...

With its indoor pools, exercise equipment, training sessions and classes within its expansive facility, the Tice Creek Fitness Center typically is a haven for residents during winter months. Of late, those experiences are not without some complications – or changes. These topics drew much discussion during the Jan. 18 Aquatics and Fitness Advisory ...

Cindy Ware, one of the founders of Sustainable Rossmoor and a former board member with the Democrats of Rossmoor who campaigned for both regional and national candidates, died Jan. 28 after a long illness. She was 80. Ware served four years as the president of the board for Mutual Eight, where she and her husband, Jim, had lived since 2012. “She wa...

Astaffing shortage, software limitations and auditing of club use have combined to decelerate club room reservations in 2024. Because the Recreation Department was short-staffed, it closed down reservations for two weeks in December to focus on historical club bookings, which involves renewing club reservations from the previous year. Six weeks lat...

With six people in Creekside’s Club Room and anywhere from seven to 10 others taking part via Zoom, the Jan. 26 meeting of Rossmoor’s Insurance Task Force featured a lot of talk that sounded pretty technical to the unattuned ear – phrases like “retained risk layers,” “price lock valuation thresholds” and “aggregated loss” were either discussed or a...

Deliveryofthe2024Rossmoor phone books has begun. Delivery to manors will take place during the next three weeks. Any manor that is not vacant or that doesn’t have a vacation hold on its newspaper will receive the phone book by Friday, Feb. 23. Any resident who has not received a phone book by 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23, can call the News office at 1-92...

A celebration of life will be held for former Rossmoor resident and social justice activist Bob Hanson on Friday, Feb. 23, beginning at 10:30 a.m. at Mt. Diablo Universalist Unitarian Church, 55 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek. There also will be a reception for family and friends. Those planning to attend should RSVP with Rick Sterling at rsterling1@gma...

Residents are reminded not to walk close to the trucks from Republic Services and Recycle Smart and not to engage the drivers while they are operating the vehicle. Drivers have reported that multiple residents have walked behind, in front of or next to trucks while they are moving or backing up, said Republic Service Municipal Manager Kimberly Lam....

Rossmoor Advocates for Diversity (RAD) membership dues for 2024 are now payable. To be included as a member, all dues must be paid by Feb. 29. Anyone who has joined the club since Oct. 1, 2023, or has paid their dues since then is current for the whole of 2024. Rossmoor Advocates for Diversity’s vision is to create a more diverse and welcoming comm...