About 130 people attend project milestone It was a gathering Bill Dougherty never would have predicted he would attend. On Friday morning, just south of the Event Center, Dougherty – the founder in 2010 of the Rossmoor Pickleball Club, and its first president – wielded a traditional gold shovel at the groundbreaking ceremony for Rossmoor’s pickleba...

Staff writer Ken Jonah, the chairman of the Rossmoor Emergency Preparedness Organization (EPO), kicked off Wednesday’s forum on scams targeting older people in Creekside’s Club Room by asking attendees how many scams aimed at older people were reported in the U.S. last year. “52 billion calls,” Jonah said. “It averages 50 billion calls a year. And ...

In what was described as a “good first step,” the RWC Planning Committee addressed questions and set priorities for the RWC 2026 capital budget at its meeting last week. Committee members did some early minor reprioritizing of planned projects, and went over proposed new capital projects, machinery and equipment budget requests and items transferre...

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. Wednesday, Nov. ...

Rossmoor Walnut Creek (RWC) has updated its official email address for contacting the RWC Board and several of its advisory committees. Residents who previously used grb@rossmoor.com should now send messages to the new address: rwcboard@rossmoor.com This change reflects the or-ganization’s recent name tran-sition from Golden Rain Foundation (GRF) t...

Details lacking so far, except will focus on community services RWC leaders want to develop ways to determine whether Rossmoor’s various community services, programs and amenities are as relevant and impactful as they can be, and a task force set up to devise those methods met for the first time last week. That may be a harder ask than it appears a...

24TH ANNUAL HEALTH FAIR Large crowd waiting as this year’s fair opened The link between “bus transportation” and “health” is more direct than many people would think, and Penny Reed wanted to drive that point home. “There are three pillars to health – biological, psychological and social,” said Reed, manager of Rossmoor Counseling Services. “Bus tr...

Andres Osorio applied CPR to help save the life of a resident In the world of emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, stellar observational skills and quick action are vital, particularly when someone’s life hangs in the balance. Those attributes were evident last month when Andres Osorio, Securitas’ EMT supervisor, responded to a call from The Wat...

For Pat Stenson and Lynn Pilant, the Rossmoor Certified Farmers’ Market has become the focus of a new tradition, a bonding ritual. During market season, the two friends – from Rossmoor and Concord, respectively – meet every Friday morning in the Gateway parking lot to check out the market, to see what there is to buy. “I’m not looking for anything ...

“Gratitude is our Attitude, Continuing Living Together Better in 2025” is the theme of the annual Harvest Festival on the Monday before Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24, 4 to 6 p.m. in the Fireside Room. The Harvest Festival is sponsored by the Interfaith Council of Rossmoor in gratitude for the art and craft studios and clubs surrounding Gateway Plaza. T...