The Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District (OCMVCD) is reporting an increase of West Nile Virus-positive mosquitoes in areas of the county. Escalated WNV responses such as residential truck-mounted adult mosquito control is triggered when surveillance data continues to identify significant WNV positive mosquitoes in an area. The high number WNVpositive mosquitoes in the cities of

Credits & Kudos must include the writer’s name and mutual, and will be edited for brevity. Mention of a business or service is not an endorsement or recommendation by the LW News or Golden Rain Foundation. Hazel Eileen Dohn of Mutual 11 got fast service from her Mutual 11 Board. She writes: “I put a note in the Administration mail slot to the Mutual 11 Board at 7 a.m. onAug. 14. It concerned

Editor: Since the pandemic, I don’t drive much, and my poor car gathers dirt in the carport. I am using the LW car washing station since I am leery of the human contact involved in going to a professional carwash. Whoever put together the car wash station seems unaware that it would be used exclusively by old people. It is located by Clubhouse 2 and consists of a concrete area with marked

Leisure World residents are living in historic times as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds around the world. Residents are welcome to share their experiences, observations and opinions with their friends and neighbors in the LW Weekly. The deadline is Thursday for the following week’s publication. Submissions are subject to editing for clarity and brevity. Submit your stories by emailing rutho_news@lwsb.com.

A Mutual 6 resident called to report that a friend almost fell for the so-called “90# Telephone Scam,” a legacy phone scam using the 90# buttons on business landline telephones. It is still around, targeting phones served by a private branch exchange (PBX) or private automatic branch exchange (PABX). According to the Federal Communications Commission, someone calls claiming to be a telephone

GRF trust streets are swept on the fourth Thursday of the month. Parked vehicles must be removed from trust streets before midnight the night before. Contact Mutual directors to find out when your mutual carports are scheduled for sweeping.

Submissions in each of the following categories may be published at the discretion of the Communications and Technical Director. Letters to the Editor: Maximum number of words: 250. Letters should be typed and delivered to LW Weekly by email preferred), regular mail, deposited in a white GRF drop box, or hand-delivered. Letters must be of general interest to the community and may contain opinions,

A letter to the editor (Aug. 20) incorrectly stated “history reveals, however, there were unwilling Africans who were exploited much earlier in America, in the fourteenth century.” The Fourteenth century ran from 1300-1399. America was discovered after 1492. According to Wikipedia, the first 19 or so Africans to reach the colonies England was struggling to establish arrived in Point Comfort,

Editor: Gloria Beech (Letters, July 30) asked, “Who are these traffic people at the front gate?” As a former traffic officer, I can answer that question. Currently, there are three different types of employees working for Security: full time GRF employees, part time GRF employees, and temp workers. The temps are provided by Off Duty Officers Inc., which has been providing temps for Security

Editor: I would sincerely like to thank both Pamela McDougal (Letters, Aug. 6) and Gloria Beech (Letters, July 30) for doing something so important and necessary—to open a civil discussion on racism, a sickness this country has endured since the arrival of Africans, who by most “official” accounts arrived in Virginia in 1619. History reveals, however, there were unwilling Africans who