Insurance carriers are not expected to use new Cal Fire maps to set rates Contra Costa Fire Protection District Chief Lewis Broschard wasted no time addressing the proverbial elephant in the room during a public meeting on April 1 on newly released Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for communities throughout the state. No, the maps issued by Cal Fire ...

“Acting Our Lives” class melds writing, physicality into a transformative experience Power of personal expression has long inspired Bobbi Ausubel, who turns 89 this month, and by all indications there appears no letting up. Soon after settling into the routine of Rossmoor about 12 years ago, she started spreading her joy of acting through a class o...

‘Rossmoor Walnut Creek’ voted as the community’s brand name The Marketing Task Force settled on more of its objectives at its March 31 meeting. The task force gave unanimous support to designating Rossmoor Walnut Creek as the brand name for the community, with Rossmoor as a nickname. The Rossmoor Walnut Creek name already has been registered with C...

Elevator stalls happened within a week’s span A Rossmoor couple is speaking out over concerns about elevators after each was trapped in one in their Stanley Dollar Drive building in two incidents in less than a week. Alan Brown went to the March 27 GRF Board meeting to describe during Residents’ Forum how both he and his wife, Dianne, each had been...

Event recalls group’s origins, mission Rossmoor Advocates for Diversity took time to celebrate five years of impactful activism in this community while pointing out how current times have kept the organization’s efforts important. RAD hosted a gathering March 21 in the Fireside Room to recall its origins and cast a gaze at the challenges of today. ...

Directors also approve funds for golf irrigation line The GRF Board last week authorized opening the bid process for new pickleball courts behind the Event Center. The Board voted 8 to 1 at the March 27 meeting to seek competitive bids, pending approval of all permits by the city of Walnut Creek. The vote came hours before the Walnut Creek Planning...

Resident shares insights on preventing fraud When Ken Jonah moved to Rossmoor in July of last year, this community gained an expert on senior scams. Jonah has been quite in demand in recent months in and around Rossmoor. He’s been a regular contributor to this newspaper’s Scam Alert articles. He’s been giving presentations, perhaps to a Mutual that...

Although the GRF Finance Committee still had no financial reports to review, Chief Financial Officer Todd Arterburn told them at last week’s meeting that the finance team is making “huge progress” and is “really, really close” for producing reports after delays tied to the implementation of NetSuite, Rossmoor’s new enterprise resource planning syst...

Seldon, Byram elected directors by acclamation; Hildreth and Hines running for seat in District F The candidates who have qualified to run for the GRF Board this spring are Janet Seldon in District B, Susan Hildreth and Cheryl Hines in District F, and Adrian Byram in District G. All candidates were officially certified to run for election by Assist...

Pickleball and pipe project shouldn’t affect golfers GRF officials hope that, perhaps as soon as this week, GRF will get its plans for the pickleball structure near the Event Center approved by the city of Walnut Creek. And at that point, some of the prep work that doesn’t need further permitting can begin. One example of such prep work is the requ...