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The holidays are in full swing here in Rossmoor and we have 3 things happening for the entire neighborhood over the next 11 days. It's going to be a great time.
First, you still have time to register your home for the annual Rossmoor Christmas Lights Celebration. Registering is important as its the best way to let everyone know your house is lit up for the holidays and so it can be included on the Winter Festival Trolley Tour (more on that in a minute), the Celebration judging, and the Celebration Bike Tour.
Second, as mentioned above, the 4th Annual Rossmoor Winter Festival is THIS Friday December 14th. The holiday spirit is here, and there will be snow, a petting zoo, crafts, and of course what would a Winter Festival be without Santa? Yes, the Rossmoor Winter Festival has it all including a beer and wine garden, a wide variety of food trucks ready to cater to your dinner and snacking needs. School choirs will perform and the evening is
sure to be filled with laughter and joy. The best part? It's local here at Rush Park and there is no admission charge.
Third, and to round out the holiday celebrations, another fun family Saturday evening event, the Rossmoor Christmas Lights Bicycle Tour is taking place December 22, starting at Rush Park. Last year we had over 100 bicyclists with their bikes decorated in lights and music playing while checking out the Christmas light displays throughout Rossmoor. Now going into the third
year, a local bicycling group, LightningVelo Cycling Club has even more pre and post activities in place for this year’s ride!
- 5:00 pm: The club will help families decorate their bikes. Bring your lights and/or some will be available for purchase
- 6:00: Group photo by the lighted tree at Rush Park
- 6:10: Lighted bike ride parade starts from Rush Park
- Then meet back at Rush Park for warm drinks until around 8:30
In addition to decorating your bike, make sure to wear warm light-colored clothing, including gloves, and of course a bike helmet.
If you haven’t used your bike in a while, there will be two safety check sessions on Friday evening at 7:00 pm or Saturday afternoon at 3:00 pm. Location for safety check is 3131 Druid Lane in Rossmoor.
We are looking for some Christmas Elf helpers on Dec. 22. To help ensure the rider’s safety, Nia Hartman is seeking some volunteers to help with flagging riders and crossing intersections. Please contact her at (562)
233-4455.
Looking to have over 200 riders participate in this year’s event, so it should be quite the spectacle.
It’ll be a great way to spend the weekend with the family before Santa’s arrival on the 25th, so hope you can join in the Christmas spirit, seeing the lights up close as a part of the bicycle parade!
Upcoming Dates to Note
There are a number of events coming up that you will want to put on your calendar. Check them out:
- RCSD Board Meeting - Tuesday 12/11 - 7:00 p.m. Rush Park Aud.
- Rossmoor Winter Festival - Friday 12/14 - 6:00 p.m. Rush Park
- Christmas Lights Celebration Judging - Saturday 12/15
- Street Sweeping - Monday December 17th, please remove your vehicles and trash cans from the streets of Rossmoor. Thanks!
- RHA Board Meeting - No December Board Meeting
- Christmas Lights Celebration Bike Tour - Sat 12/22 6 p.m. Rush Park
- Rossmoor Recycles - Saturday 12/29 - 8:00 a.m. to Noon - Rush Park, please bring your newspapers, mixed paper, cans and plastic bottles.
And of course, the weekly Rossmoor Walk & Talk each Tuesday morning, starting at 10:30 a.m. and on Thursday afternoons at 4:00. Both meet near the playground at Rush Park when it's not raining.
Thanks for reading the Our Rossmoor eBlast
The RHA Comm Team
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Rossmoor Christmas Lights Celebration
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The RHA sponsored Rossmoor Christmas Lights Celebration is well under way with decorations going up and home registrations streaming in. Now in its 12th season, the Celebration is open to all Rossmoor homes and
it's free to participate. Just sign up before December 15th to be included on our HotSpots map.
Of course this isn’t a contest, and the amazing Christmas spirit across Rossmoor. Signing up just allows us to create the HotSpot to highlight the homes showing Christmas spirit to help everyone navigate the neighborhood and share in the excitement!
Keeping with the tradition and adding to the fun, a few homes, streets, or neighbors will receive special Recognition Awards, depending on how their decorations inspire the judges. Previous awards included the Winter Wonderland Award, the Griswold Award, or even Rookie-of-the-Year Award.
The primary goal for all participants is to Make-the-Map, with your home being identified as one of the locations for families to check out along the route.
Speaking of routes, in its third year, the Rossmoor Christmas Lights Bicycle Tour is planned for Saturday, December 22, starting at Rush Park at 6:00 p.m. So many people have already been asking about this! It’s a great fun family evening that will include bike decorating and post tour festivities. More details to follow.
A huge thanks to Chris Marshall and Kieran Nolan who co-chair the RHA Christmas Lights Celebration. Participation is completely free (well, apart from the back-breaking labor required to decorate your house, of course)!
To participate and earn a spot on the neighborhood map, simply register here before December 15th and the judges will stop by your home and we will include you on the HotSpot Map.
Here are the key dates:
- Friday, December 14: RCSD hosts the Rossmoor Winter Festival at Rush Park, featuring a Christmas Lights Trolley ride, visiting decorated Rossmoor homes.
- Saturday, December 15: Judges travel around that evening, checking out the registered homes and determining the recognition awards and homes to be included in the Hot Spots Map.
- Tuesday, December 18: Recognition Awards and Christmas Lights Hot Spots announced on the RHA's OurRossmoor.com website, and Map available for downloading.
- Saturday, December 22: Rossmoor Christmas Lights Bicycle Tour, starting at Rush Park at 6:00 p.m.
OK time to register and decorate your house for all the walkers, bikers and drivers that will be enjoying your Christmas lights efforts throughout December.
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Are You A Licensed HAM Radio Operator? |
If you are, then we'd like to know so we can reestablish our emergency amateur radio network here in Rossmoor.
If you are not a licensed operator and are interested in becoming one, please let us know that as well. We can point you in the right direction and if there's enough interest, possibly schedule a class here in Rossmoor.
If there is enough interest, we can reestablish the Rossmoor Emergency Amateur Radio Network. If/when a major disaster event occurs, Ham Radios may be the most effective way for us to communicate. If you are interested please let us know here..
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AlertOC is a mass notification system designed to keep Orange County residents and businesses informed of emergencies and certain community events.
By registering with AlertOC, time-sensitive voice messages from the County or City in which you live or work may be sent to your home, cell or business phone. Text messages may also be sent to cellphones, e-mail accounts and hearing impaired receiving devices.
Neighborhood Watch Updates |
Rossmoor's Neighborhood Watch Program welcomes the opportunity to work together with residents through Neighborhood Watch and Nextdoor.
We are always looking to expand our Neighborhood Watch program by adding block captains, registering homes and neighbors, or sharing information.
Presently, more than half of the streets in Rossmoor have block captains - Is your street one of them?
It's easy to participate either in Neighborhood Watch or as a block captain by registering here.
It is also very important for residents to share information about safety and security concerns with OC Sheriff's by calling 714.647.7000. And we ask you to register your home with our Program.
If you see suspicious activity, call the Orange County Sheriff’s Department at 714.647.7000 and report:
• Who or what you saw
• When you saw it
• Where it occurred
• Why it’s suspicious
As always if there is an emergency, call 9-1-1.
Stay Safe Rossmoor……remember…..be connected, be smart and be observant. If something is not right, call the OC Sheriff's Department at 714.647.7000 and if you see a crime in
progress, call 9-1-1.
THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU!
We are all in this together. It is up to all of us to be observant for the safety of our community.
What is Rossmoor’s Neighborhood Watch Program?
Rossmoor’s Neighborhood Watch Program is organized, funded and operated by the Rossmoor Homeowner’s Association (RHA) and has been since its beginning back in the late 1970's.
Rossmoor's Neighborhood Watch Committee distributes weekly crime reports to block captains and these reports are also posted on the RHA website and Nextdoor so residents are regularly notified about area incidents.
Quarterly crime/activity reports are presented by the OC Sheriffs at Rossmoor Community Services District meetings (generally each Feb., May, Aug., and Nov.) and we post these reports here for your convenience.
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RHA Membership Because Rossmoor Matters
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The Rossmoor Homeowners Association (RHA) is a membership funded, non-profit organization and as such relies primarily on member dues and fund-raising to cover its annual costs.
What costs?
Great question, glad you asked.
The Rossmoor Homeowners Association is focused on Fun, Safety, and Communications:
And while the costs for these programs are not huge, they do add up throughout the year. And that's why we ask you to support our volunteer efforts by joining or renewing your membership with the RHA. And at $30 per household, it's a steal. Just hop on over to the RHA
website and fill in your information.
You'll be supporting the RHA and its many efforts to keep Rossmoor the great place to live it is today. Join or renew today!
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Rossmoor Recycles: Saturday 12/29
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Our next monthly Rossmoor Recycles Drive is on Saturday, December 29th. Please bring your recyclable newspapers, mixed paper waste, recyclable cans, and plastic bottles to Rush Park.
You'll be helping the environment AND putting some much-needed funds back into the Rossmoor community!
Note: Free paper shredding is available quarterly (Oct, Jan, Apr, and July) and is provided by The File Depot in Huntington Beach
We’ll see you there!
8:00 AM to 12 N00N – Rush Park Parking Lot
on Blume Drive
Please separate Newspaper materials from other paper waste, e.g. cardboard and magazines and other paper materials waste. Thanks for your help!
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I-405 Improvement Project |
As most of you know the I-405 enhancement project has begin with the preliminary ground and soil work. The I-405 in both directions from the I-605 to SR 73 interchange will have CalTrans crews working intermittently on the shoulders and neighboring streets. Some lane and complete freeway closures will take
place as well.
The OCTA has also released a projected schedule for the bridge work along the 16 mile project path. You can see that here. Note that none of the projected
work will directly impact Rossmoor or Seal Beach Blvd. However, if you plan to drive between here and SR 73 in Costa Mesa, especially in the late night and early morning hours, you may want to check for closures on the
OCTA website.
We will provide updates here as they become available.
Once the project is completed in about 2023, there will be one additional traffic lane in each direction. The current HOV lane and an additional lane will be Toll Lanes for vehicles with less than 3 riders.
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Rossmoor resident Herb Halling coordinates the two weekly Rossmoor Walk & Talk meet ups at Rush Park on
Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m.
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Thursday afternoons at 4:00 p.m.
Both meet at Rush Park - That is unless it's raining, then there's no walk.
The idea is simple enough, whoever attends forms groups of 2-4 people and walk around Rush Park 1, 2, or 3 times, and they talk. How long they walk, how fast they walk, and what they talk about is up to them. There never seems to be a shortage of talking topics so join in the fun while you pump some blood around your body.
It's a real Win-Win
This great idea creates an informal way to meet your neighbors and get some exercise at the same time. It could save or at least extend your life, plus you'll get to meet some really great people. And that is a huge win-win.
The more the merrier - Invite your friends and please spread the word. Rossmoor Walk & Talk meets are held every Tuesday at 10:30 AM
AND every Thursday at 4:00 PM both at Rush Park.
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Block members contribute by expanding the coverage of the Neighborhood Watch network.
The more residents who participate in the program and are observant about their surroundings and neighborhood, the safer our community is.
All you need to do is complete the block member form and you will be added to the Neighborhood Watch network. There is no cost or obligation to you, but the benefits to you and your block could be life changing or saving.
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Coyote sightings in Rossmoor have decreased to almost zero over the past couple of months. The coyote gates are down and that is a big help. Other easier food sources seem to be available to the local coyotes as well. Unfortunately, reduced sightings/reports does
not indicate the coyotes are not in Rossmoor. They are still here.
For those of you who have made reports, THANK YOU. You are helping us track coyote behavior which is critical to any future removal attempts.
Please continue to be careful with your pets (keep them indoors or within your sight, and DO NOT leave pet food outside after feeding time).
Our Rossmoor Wildlife Watch program continues to collect reports and monitors coyote behavior and movement based on these reports. Please continue to report any coyote activity you see on the Rossmoor
Wildlife Watch website.
If you would like to find out more about our Rossmoor Wildlife Watch program and discover what we are doing, please sign up for more information.
The coyote challenge we face here in Rossmoor and throughout Southern California does not have a magical "fix it" solution. It will take a community effort (that's you and me, not "them") to keep our pets safe and reduce the risks in our neighborhood. Please learn what you can do at your home and for everyone in
Rossmoor.
Rossmoor. A great place to live since 1957
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