In honor of Veterans Day, I would like to introduce one of our more senior Rossmoor resident veterans, former U. S. Women’s Army Corps (WAC) private first class Leona Shahani. In fall 1943, Shahani was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin. While in college, she was very much aware of the war as she watched the young men in the ROTC “training f...

George Ivanov has been named Rossmoor TV Channel 28 station manager. He replaces Susan Ritner, who retired in July. Ivanov, who was studio coordinator, had filled in on an interim basis. “George has been a quiet, driving force behind the great work at Channel 28 for years, but during the pandemic and subsequent shutdown, he has really shined,” Comm...

Despite the pandemic, we frequently hear from residents who share why they remain thankful even during these trying times. We also see it in the Scenes Around Rossmoor photos that are published each week. Now, we’d like to give residents a chance to share their gratitude with others. Residents either can tell us in 150 words or less or show us in a...

Rossmoor Quilters club has donated 34 quilts, several bags, pillowcases and masks to the Pajaro Valley Quilt Association for distribution to victims of the CZU Lightning Complex fires near Santa Cruz. Nancy Conrad drove the items to the Nimble Thimble Quilt Shop in Gilroy, which is one of the collection points. The quilters also collected sewing no...

GRF Board District I Director John Kikuchi resigned on Oct. 13 because he is moving to San Diego to be closer to family. He was serving his first year of a three-year term on the GRF Board. Kikuchi had also served on the boards for the Rossmoor Fund Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation, as well as the GRF Audit Committee. In accordance with the GRF Byla...

Residents who need assistance from Mutual Operations can now email individual departments to get a response within 24 hours. The emails are as follows: • Accounting, including questions about coupon payments – finance@rossmoor.com; • Alterations – alterations@rossmoor.com; • Building Maintenance, to report maintenance or landscape issues that do no...

Some fitness and aquatics classes resume Assistant and managing editors The Tice Creek indoor pool facility can reopen for recreational swimming — at least for now. Because of continued gains in reducing the transmission of COVID-19, California moved Contra Costa County from the red tier to the less-restrictive orange tier on Oct. 27, allowing for ...

GRF Board meeting Up to $250,000 will be spent on modifications to GRF buildings’ HVAC systems to help limit the indoor spread of COVID-19. System upgrades for air purification would be made throughout Rossmoor, from the Fitness Center and Gateway to Hillside, Creekside, the Event Center, and more. “The recommendation of the CDC is to make modifica...

Smoky air from wildfires prompted the closure of the Hillside and Dollar swimming pools on 13 days during August through October. And on Sept. 9, the air was so thick with smoke that Kaiser Permanente called off its outdoor flu clinic at Gateway after three hours when people started getting sick. Because of the growing concerns around the health im...

No-shows at Dollar and Hillside pools have continued from the summer into fall, even as some residents have trouble finding a desirable reservation time for the two outdoor pools. As many as 200 swimmers were no-shows in a given week during the summer. And while those numbers slipped to just over 40 per week in late September, they still leave resi...