First Mutual will hold its 52nd Annual Meeting of the membership on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 10 a.m. in the Fireside Room at Gateway. All members are encouraged to attend. Light refreshments will be served. Topics include the president’s report; a recap of the past year’s events; residents’ forum; and announcement of the organizational meeting. One cand...

Eric Cox’s motto might explain why he would hike down a steep hill and climb through a hole in a fence off Golden Rain Road in early August. “I’m the kind of person,” the Rossmoor resident explains, “where if I see a problem, I say, let’s see how we can get it fixed.” On Aug. 7, Cox was looking at the work PG& E had done recently to clear veget...

Two years after fire, moving day finally here Residents of four condos on Rossmoor Parkway that were destroyed in a fire nearly two years ago finally get to go home this month, just a few days shy of when the blaze broke out on Sept. 2, 2017. Fortunately, none of the residents was hurt – though, sadly, Papaya the cat lost her life – and all four un...

Earthquake, fire, flood, wind storm, landslide, heat wave, cold snap or long power outages – take your pick of disasters waiting to happen. Then ask yourself, how does someone prepare to survive the worst? Rossmoor’s Emergency Preparedness Committee (EPO) knows how and wants to share that information. Some of its members spent a year gathering the ...

With PG& E prepared to turn off power to its customers should the threat of wildfire become critical, the utility continues to ask those customers for updated phone numbers, email addresses and other contact information so warning of such temporary shutoffs can be given. San Francisco-based PG& E, which provides electric power to approximat...

Washington Post technology columnist Geoffrey Fowler returns to speak to the Rossmoor Computer Club on Thursday, Aug. 29, at 7 p.m., in the Event Center. His topic is “Stop Calling Me!!” He’ll talk about robocalls – “the No. 1 technology nuisance,” in his opinion. Those annoyances are also the No. 1 complaint fielded by the Federal Communications C...

An article about PG& E clearing vegetation in the Aug. 14 edition had a resident praising GRF’s landscaping crews for trimming vegetation on a stretch of hill off Golden Rain Road. That trimming was done by the Mutual, not GRF. A table tennis caption in the Aug. 14 edition should have listed David Kwok on the left and Frank Chu on the right and...

Replacement pole planned for site of fire last summer Staff writer Residents who live on Golden Rain Road, Entry 16, can breathe a sigh of relief. A PG& E crew cleared the vegetation around a power pole where a fire broke out last summer, started by a squirrel that was electrocuted on a power line and fell into the parched grass. “The vegetatio...

And yes, he remembers everything Staff writer The first moon walk, Vietnam War protests, Sesame Street and my high school graduation weren’t the only notable things that happened in 1969. There was Woodstock – a three-day festival of peace and music by arguably the best rock ‘n’ roll talent to ever perform on the same stage. Woodstock is said to ha...

Managing editor Walnut Creek police temporarily issued a shelter in place for Skycrest Drive Entry 17 last Wednesday, Aug. 7, after Securitas received two reports of a male walking in the entry with a long gun or rifle. It turned out to be a false alarm. A pest control supervisor confirmed with police later Wednesday that the person was a pest cont...