Nearly 40 services on hand at Health Fair Cicely Chin emerged from getting her blood pressure checked, beaming one of the brightest smiles seen during last week’s Health Fair. This was Chin’s first time at the Health Fair, after she moved here two years ago. She wanted to see whether her blood pressure that day matched what was taken by her doctor ...

With her last client retiring, Gail Strack is doing the same. This ends an adventurous work journey for Strack, 86, who carved out a career as a female business owner when that wasn’t the norm. She made her mark in medical transcription, as a traveling notary, and earlier as a teacher. When Dr. Gary Aguilar, a San Francisco ophthalmologist and Stra...

That Carol Amaya was alive and present at Saturday’s Emergency Preparedness Fair was proof she knows the value of being prepared for disaster. Amaya, who heads up Mutual 40’s emergency preparedness committee, lost her home in the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise. “I wanted to come in, see what the emergency preparedness materials were all about, and also...

“Neighbors helping neighbors” was the theme of a Rossmoor Fund donor campaign in 2023-24, and volunteer officials still use that term to describe what the Fund does ‒ help hundreds of fellow residents each year who experience urgent financial needs. And while the Fund still depends on residents’ individual donations to make a difference in helping ...