Winter Nights, Youth Homes receive contributions Lions Care for Kids 2024 Campaign articles will explain the club’s support of vision, hearing, pediatric cancer, diabetes and humanitarian causes that relate to children in need. The articles give residents an opportunity to donate to the outreach categories they feel drawn to. Supporting organizatio...

Brenda Birrell, program director for The Global Uplift Project, which develops educational projects in developing countries around the world, will be the featured speaker at Rossmoor Rotary’s meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 23. Birrell is a former classroom teacher who retired in 2017 to work full time for The Global Uplift Project. The Rossmoor Rotary ...

Residents learn tools for preventing potential falls It wasn’t really applause, per se, but on Sept. 19, the Fireside Room echoed with the sounds of hands clapping … on bare feet. It was the sound of perhaps 100 people heeding fitness trainer and human movement specialist Ernie Adams’ call to “warm up” their feet. It sounded like muffled applause. ...

Residents will pay $354.52 monthly for GRF services/amenities next year The GRF Board on Thursday approved a 2025 operating budget of $28,401,490, and with it a monthly GRF coupon amount of $354.52, about 5.9% over the 2024 coupon amount. That $354.52 includes $59.45 for Comcast cable TV and internet service, a 3.84% increase over 2024. Thursday’s ...

Lynn Carruthers has dedicated much of the past two years to the cause of pedestrian safety in Rossmoor. Following a series of tragic accidents, including one that took the life of a resident, Carruthers’ group, Neighbors for Safer Streets, has pounded the pavement of Rossmoor’s roadways to educate pedestrians and drivers alike on the dos and don’ts...

Annual festival allows clubs to share their culture with community Mary Taylor sees her human rights work as a calling, one that surfaced after she came to Rossmoor in 2015. She was at a meeting, and Taylor – who is African American – told someone she lived in Rossmoor. “They told me they thought they were not letting Black FESTIVAL: Fourth annual ...

The Sept. 25 letter titled, “Letter ‘Cherry Picks’ Information” contained a program name and acronym that were capitalized. These should have been lowercase as this was not an official program but a label used to express an opinion. A Retail Roundup item on Page 13B of the Sept. 18 News incorrectly reported that Clocks, Etc. in Lafayette has closed...

Outdoor pools to remain open rest of year The Tice Pools at the Fitness Center will close on Monday, Oct. 21 and remain closed for two months while the malfunctioning roof panel system is replaced. The indoor pools will be closed through Dec. 31 as OpenAire, a Canadian retractable roof company that built the original roof in 2007, will replace the ...

Work will close the pool area starting on Oct. 21 The wait to replace the aging, malfunctioning roof panel system at the Tice Pools soon will be over. The target date to start the work is Monday, Oct. 21. The roof panels and the gears and motors that operate them will be replaced, said John Raith, Trust Maintenance supervisor. The work will be done...

Resident Spotlight Lynne Forrette specializes in connecting neighbors Hitting the hiking trails may be the best way to get the lay of the land in Rossmoor. And that’s one of the first things Lynne Forrette did when she got here. “I met most of my friends – my posse – in the Trails Club,” said Forrette, who has lived in Rossmoor, and been a Trails C...