Transportation service will be available within Rossmoor and the Rossmoor Shopping Center Christmas Eve (Wednesday, Dec. 24), Christmas Day (Thursday, Dec. 25), and New Year’s Day (Thursday, Jan. 1). Service will be available within the Rossmoor Community and the Shopping Center from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; there will be no service to downtown areas. Not...

Rodney Worth set to launch ‘The Pear at Rossmoor’ Rodney Worth has a lot of plans for the future of food service in Rossmoor, and expects that one of the most popular ones will be rolling in soon, looking kind of retro. “The coffee cart will look like a 1970s travel trailer, and we’re going to park it right near the (golf course) driving range,” sa...

String Orchestra gears up for Holiday Concert It started in 2016 with four musicians. Nine years later, the Rossmoor String Orchestra boasts 24 players. Can this ensemble keep growing indefinitely? It depends. “We need enough of each instrument to balance things out,” said Nancy Castille, a violinist with the orchestra. “If we were suddenly swamped...

After some tweaking by the Policy Committee, the Rossmoor Walnut Creek Board on Thursday gave a preliminary go-ahead of adjustments to Rossmoor’s harassment policy and two related policies governing enforcement of various rules at Rossmoor facilities and hearings for accused rule violators. This was the second time these adjusted policies came to t...

A fire in a manor in the 3200 block of Terra Granada Drive was quickly extinguished last week by Contra Costa Fire Protection District firefighters. ConFire responded Dec. 2 at 1:13 p.m. to a fire in a condominium in a 16-unit building. The fire was contained to the area where it originated, FIRE: Cause of Dec. 2 blaze currently under investigation...

Humans often experience a feeling of connection with others when like-minded people are working together with a common goal, a sense of solidarity. A larger view that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world – the “oneness hypothesis” – can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. The Greek word...

Transportation service will be available within Rossmoor and the Rossmoor Shopping Center Christmas Eve (Wednesday, Dec. 24), Christmas Day (Thursday, Dec. 25), and New Years Day (Thursday, Jan. 1). Service will be available within the Rossmoor Community and the Shopping Center from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; there will be no service to downtown areas. Note...

The Rossmoor News (927080), established April 15, 1965, is published on Wednesdays for Rossmoor residents and is available outside of the community at a subscription rate of $185 per year (for first-class mail delivery), by Golden Rain Foundation, 1006 Stanley Dollar Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94595. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Rossmoor Ne...

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. ...

Gedeons built beloved dining destination inside the gate Valentine’s Day 2007 was a fitting debut for what would become Creekside Grill and Bar. It heralded a nearly 20year love affair between owners Stan and Ann Gedeon, their staff and the Rossmoor community. “We invited everyone for free champagne and appetizers,” Stan Gedeon recalled during a re...