As the Tree of Lights marks its 40th anniversary this fall, this Monday’s program in Rossmoor will be the first in a series of ceremonies that memorialize friends and loved ones who have died. Rossmoor’s Tree of Lights ceremony is sponsored by Hospice East Bay and Friends of Hospice Rossmoor, the latter a Rossmoor club. Proceeds from this fundraisi...

The general election is this Tuesday, Nov. 2. Once again, the Event Center will be serving as a Rossmoor polling place for in-person voting from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. that day, as one of seven Election Day polling places in Walnut Creek. For those opting to vote in person ahead of Election Day, the Community Arts Auditorium at 111 N. Wiget Lane in Walnu...

As more than one person said on a recent Monday afternoon, death is the great mystery. At the Rossmoor End of Life Concerns Club meeting Oct. 19 in the packed Club Room at Creekside, four panelists of different faiths discussed the how they approach death. The “Spiritual and Religious Views on End of Life” event was co-sponsored by the Rossmoor Int...

small cellos, for instance), of varying quality. “One was left on my doorstep, literally in pieces,” Witbeck recalled. That delivery, and the fact several of her earliest acquisitions (all small WITBECK: She’s working to end cello rental-sales business – not ‘teaching’ cellos) were initially stored in a crib, prompted her friends and students to du...