Aiming to build upon encouraging results from the first year, organizers of the Dementia and Diabetes Prevention Program study are gearing up for year two in Rossmoor. The program, a partnership between UC Davis and Tice Creek Fitness Center, is built upon taking preventative measures with diet and exercise. Organizers will be seeking new qualified...

With rates likely facing another costly hike for 2023, the GRF and Mutuals are exploring possible alternatives for property insurance that would avoid a deductible increase from $250,000 to $1 million. Chief Financial Officer Joel Lesser told the Finance Committee last week that many insurance renewals set to occur July 1 are seeing rate increases ...

He worked in a variety of jobs over the years, including as an inspector for organic food production; with the Pleasant Hill-based White Pony Express nonprofit working to ease hunger; as an educator at Purdue University and UC Davis; and, for 22 years, as an agricultural economics professor at Texas A& M University in College Station. He and hi...

Shred Day returns to the Gateway parking lot on Monday, July 18, from 9 a.m. to noon, or until the truck is full. Residents are asked to place boxes/bags of items to shred in the trunk and remain in the car. Staff will pop the truck and remove the boxes/bags. Place payment in an envelope next to the boxes or bags to be shred. Check or cash only. Ex...

GRF Planning Committee The GRF Planning Committee voted on June 23 to recommend pursuing study of an area just southwest of the Event Center as a prospective home for a new pickleball facility, opting for it over sites at the Buckeye Tennis Complex and the existing pickleball courts at Creekside. Included in this will be hiring a landscape architec...

Leak stopped on north end of Golf Pond At the beginning of the year, there was an ominous display on the north end of the golf course pond, near the weir and spillway. “The water would literally bubble up from the ground,” Rossmoor golf course crews in March patched a leak in the golf pond floor near the concrete spillway that is delaying the need ...

Three longtime resident advisory committee members, including two current chairs, will be stepping aside in the first wave of vacancies generated by a new GRF policy limiting how long volunteers can serve on such committees. Those chairs whose current committee terms expire at the end of June are Bill Dorband of the Finance Committee and John McDon...

GRF NEWS adequate parking, close proximity to restrooms, proximity of the Dollar Park open space and the Event Center patio for social gatherings, and that the site doesn’t interfere with existing outdoor activities. Disadvantages with the Event Center pickleball courts site: Residences within 250 feet on the west side that could be affected by noi...

said Mark Heptig, Rossmoor’s director of golf courses. Thousands of gallons of water a day were being lost, and water sometimes covered the golf cart path near hole No. 1. “It kept the lake a foot or two below” normal water level, he added. Fully repairing the pond liner, last done in the mid-1990s, would have cost an estimated $75,000 to $80,000, ...

An effort to make reverse mortgages available for cooperative owners in Rossmoor has a chance at success, and supporters are calling residents to action. The U.S. Senate Review Committee is working on a 2023 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report that could require HUD to finally write guidelines for federally insured reverse mort...