There are many unique qualities about the Home Show, which returns Thursday, March 7, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., to the Event Center. For starters, it’s a huge showroom of home improvement and renovation possibilities here inside the gate. There’s the tradition of the hot dogs, an extensive variety of vendors – some veterans of the show and some newer...

Interfaith Council to show video and discuss ‘Do the Work!’ Committee correspondent Learn more about how to be antiracist by attending the Kate Schatz video presentation of the book she authored with W. Kamau Bell,“Do the Work!” on Wednesday, March 20, at 2 p.m., in the Club Room at Creekside This video and following discussion will provide an intr...

Contra Costa County Supervisor Candace Andersen will be the guest speaker at the Republican Club dinner on Tuesday, March 19, at 5:15 p.m. in the Event Center’s Tahoe Room. The traditional St. Patrick’s Day dinner will be a choice of braised corned beef; or stuffed cabbage, brown rice, pine nuts and Beyond Meat (ground), and truffle cream sauce (ve...

The News is interested in writing an article about residents involved as docents for area museums, art galleries or other Bay Area programs. We would like to learn more about how you became a docent and what is involved with your work. Residents willing to be interviewed and possibly photographed can email us at news@rossmoor.com

The city of Walnut Creek is already adding its voice to ongoing conversations with elected and appointed leaders about finding solutions to the growing property insurance problems plaguing Rossmoor. Now, a Sacramento-based trade group is looking for denizens of Rossmoor nonprofit mutual benefit corporations (“Mutuals” in Rossmoor parlance) and othe...

‘ ’ By Sam Richards Staff writer Until recently, Martie Marchetti had always done her sewing by hand, before finally giving in to (semi-) modern technology. “A whole bunch of people had told me, ‘You’ve got to start using a machine,’ and I did … and it does really go so much faster,” the Rossmoor resident said during a break on Feb. 16, the second ...

While it might seem rare to have a birthday on Feb. 29, Lisa Sammon has met a handful of others who share the unique birthdate that officially lands every four years. There was her first boss, her next-door neighbor when she first bought a home, and her great-grandmother. Those are just a few she’s met over the years. Still, the number of Rossmoori...

It’s no easy task – discuss the most controversial political and societal topics while maintaining civility and understanding toward those with opposing viewpoints. That’s what the Rossmoor Braver Angels Club sets out to do at its monthly meetings. Its meeting on Feb. 21 in the Fireside Room showed that it doesn’t shy away from big national issues....

up retreats … and machine embroidery.” Indeed, the Fireside Room on day two of the camp was like a quilting lab, with quilters going to and from one another’s workspaces, sharing advice and compliments and even needling each other, so to speak, over cups of coffee. Members of the general Rossmoor public also wandered in periodically and were welcom...

IN A CLASS OF THEIR OWN RAA instructors bring different experiences to the table John Hopper, one of the Rossmoor Art Association’s class instructors, shares why he enjoys teaching watercolor to his fellow residents. Often, it’s from the feedback he gets. “It’s them coming up to me and saying, ‘I really love this because I come here, and I don’t th...