sponse, or preparedness, including the need to have supply kits with enough water, nonperishable food and other necessities ready for three days without electricity or natural gas. He also provided a web address (www.pge.com/ reportit) for reporting potential safety concerns to PG& E. Putnam’s full hour-long presentation was recorded by Rossmoo...

The Rossmoor News (927080), established April 15, 1965, is published on Wednesdays for Rossmoor residents and is available outside of the community at a subscription rate of $185 per year (for first-class mail delivery), by Golden Rain Foundation, 1006 Stanley Dollar Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94595. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Rossmoor Ne...

Rossmoor’s Firewise Committee is pleased to host Ken Johnson, area senior vice president with Rossmoor’s insurance broker, A.J. Gallagher & Co., on Thursday, June 11 at 10 a.m. in the Fireside Room. Johnson will provide an update on Rossmoor’s successful June 1 master property insurance placement and highlight property insurance underwriters’ r...

The Rossmoor Al-Anon support group meets on Tuesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. in Multipurpose Room 1 at the Gateway Complex. This mutual support group is for anyone troubled by someone's drinking. By sharing common experiences and applying the Al-Anon principles, family and friends of alcoholics can bring positive changes to their individual situati...

back about the food, the service and the dining room itself. Sometimes, he sought that feedback by sitting right down with the diners as they ate and asking them what they thought. After the first wave of 20-some diners, he said things were going smoothly. There was constructive criticism, which Worth intentionally sought out during the soft openin...

Issue remains undecided at Aquatics & Fitness meeting A proposed fee of $5 for certain Fitness Center classes defined as “specialty classes” remains on hold for now. A newly formed subcommittee of three members of the Aquatics and Fitness Advisory Committee – Joan Boyle, Catherine Robinson-Walker and Mary Lou Thompson – will be reviewing the is...

Two updates pertaining to online privacy policies for Rossmoor’s websites were recommended last week by the Policy Committee to the RWC Board for consideration. However, a proposed overhaul of how Rossmoor clubs and organizations are defined will need more discussion. The same goes for proposed rules for the new pickleball facility at Dollar as wel...

The April 15 tax-filing deadline is in the rear-view mirror, but for donors to charities, tax considerations never go out of season. In a recent conversation, Bill Reiss, Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation (RSF) trustee and Rossmoor resident, explained why he and his wife, Ray, prefer to use Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) to make donations ...

The Rossmoor Al-Anon support group meets on Tuesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. in Multipurpose Room 1 at the Gateway Complex. This mutual support group is for anyone troubled by someone's drinking. By sharing common experiences and applying the Al-Anon principles, family and friends of alcoholics can bring positive changes to their individual situati...

“strength and resilience in the community.” “This strength shows up in how we care for each other,” Reed said. “More than 21% of older LGBTQ adults have provided care to friends compared to only 6% of non queer, cis (gendered people).” Reed said LGBTQ+ older adults experience higher rates of cognitive decline that could be attributed to health care...