GRF Director Dale Harrington, 84, of District G died on Sunday, Oct. 9, after a brief illness. Harrington, who was re-elected to his second term this year, had resigned from the Board on Friday to focus on his health. Harrington also served as chair of the GRF Policy Committee. His considerable experience included work as a probation department adm...

Residents of Rossmoor and surrounding parts of Walnut Creek and unincorporated Saranap who want to find out more about a proposed six-unit micro-home project on a Tice Valley Boulevard church campus are invited to a Wednesday, Oct. 19, community meeting about it. The 7 p.m. meeting will take place in the Oak Room at Grace Presbyterian Church, 2100 ...

Like working with people? Good with numbers? AARP Tax-Aide is looking for volunteers to become members of a team providing free tax preparation for individuals of all ages in Contra Costa County. Tax-Aide volunteer positions include tax counselors, who are trained by Tax-Aide and certified by the IRS, and client facilitators, who schedule appointme...

The article about the GRF Board meeting in last week’s News reported that club member Richard Rubin said prospective Republican Club members were too busy to serve as president. Rubin clarified that he said due to COVID, the club’s available volunteer pool has been stretched thin and he was too committed to performing multiple roles for the club to...

Appointments are being accepted to donate blood on Friday, Oct. 21, for Rossmoor’s quarterly blood drive sponsored by Northern California Red Cross, GRF and Rossmoor Emergency Preparedness Organization (EPO) in the Fireside Room. To make an appointment, go to www.redcrossblood.org and enter “rossmoorca” where it asks for ZIP code (do not enter “945...

An alert neighbor’s quick action helped Contra Costa Fire Protection District firefighters avert a potential kitchen fire on Thursday morning. A resident called 911 at 10:28 a.m. to report a smoke alarm sounding constantly and a smell of smoke coming from a manor on the 1900 block of Cactus Court, said ConFire spokesman Steve Hill. The resident was...

Like working with people? Good with numbers? AARP Tax-Aide is looking for volunteers to become members of a team providing free tax preparation for individuals of all ages in Contra Costa County. Tax-Aide volunteer positions include tax counselors, who are trained by Tax-Aide and certified by the IRS, and client facilitators, who schedule appointme...

MUTUAL NEWS Barbara Mintz and Brad Schimek say the effort to create the new Mutual 53 is all about self-control. Schimek remembers that when he moved into Third Mutual in 2010, that element wasn’t there where he lived. “We had someone making decisions for us who didn’t live in our project,” said Schimek, vice president of the board for Mutual 53, w...

It’s only six tiny homes and one accessory building, but the process to get them built has been bigger than what the Rev. Mark Burnham would have imagined. “It’s still a leading-edgetype project,” Burnham said last week of Grace Presbyterian Church’s Hope Village project for six tiny homes on a little- used church parking lot. “It turns out it’s mo...

A story on Page 15A of the Sept. 14 News listed an incorrect phone number for residents to call to register their cellphone number for the county Community Warning System (CWS). The number 1-925-655-0195 is only the CWS caller ID number that appears when receiving an alert; it is not to register for the system. Information on how to register for th...