The League of Women Voters has invited Nassau County's Howard Weitzman to speak about substituting income tax for property tax, on Thursday, November 30, 7 p.m. at the Sandel Senior Center, 50 South Park Avenue, in Rockville Centre. Everyone is welcome... If you are thinking of adopting a dog, try the Town of North Hempstead Animal Shelter first. Saturday is a great day for adoptions; give them a call at 944-8220... View original fine art each created within a square format at the "Square 4"art exhibit at the Shelter Rock Library through November 28. Free. Call 248-7363... On Friday, November 3, 7:30 p.m., meet Sandra Wolkoff of North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center, at Barnes and Noble, Carle Place, as she discussed and signs copies of the new book she edited on Raising Young Children Well. Call to confirm at 741-9850. On Monday, November 6, 7:30 p.m., meet John O'Hurley, actor, former character, J. Peterman, on the Seinfeld show, as he talks about what dogs can teach us in his new book, "It's OK To Miss The Bed On The First Jump"... Support meetings for the well spouses of the disabled or chronically ill meet on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the St. Charles Rehab Center, 201 I. U. Willets Rd. in Albertson. Time is 7:30 to 9:30 p.m... Come to a Night At The Races, at the Irish American Center, 297 Willis Avenue, Mineola, on Saturday, November 11, 8 p.m.Call 746-9392... Saint Anne's Church is having its annual Thanksgiving food drive. Monetary donations can be made with checks payable to "Saint Anne's Church," with a notation of "Thanksgiving Sponsor A Family, " which can be sent to St. Anne's Church, 35 Dartmouth Street, Garden City, NY, 11530. Attention Parish Social Ministry. Otherwise, one can purchase food for a specific family's dinner, by calling Pat Gunther at 741-7688 or Maureen Smith at 437-7319. Donations of items can also be made, please contact Ann Sweeney at 481-1156... Karen Baer, pianist , will be speaking on the topic of ensemble music for piano at the next meeting of the Association of Piano Teachers of L. I. on November 15 at 10 a.m. Call 347-0183. Group meets at GC Community Church, Stewart Ave./Whitehall Blvd. in Garden City...

Police Report: Mischief and Mayhem

On October 31, 5:09 a.m., police officers responded to an alarm at the Uptown Grill and found a rear door ajar there. Nothing was found missing at this time but an investigation continues... On October 28, 11:30 a.m., a 2000 Infiniti struck a tree at Cathedral Avenue/First Street, and the driver, a 72-year-old Glendale man, left the car locked and left the scene. Some hours later, he went to police headquarters to claim his impounded car, and was arrested for alleged DWI (.10%)... On October 30, 6:45 p.m., police officers responded to a call from a woman who said her brother had locked her in a basement of a Meadow Street house. Police arrived there and determined the man, a 49-year-old, also a resident there, had assaulted both his mother and sister, before locking them in the basement there. He was charged with unlawful imprisonment and for assault 3rd degree.On October 31, 3 windows of a car parked at Field 6 E were found broken, in addition to a tail light, with total damage at $2,000... A 17-year-old male employee at Sears was arrested there for allegedly stealing cash from a register there on October 31, 7:15 p.m... A 43-year-old Freeport woman allegedly took a $37 pair of DKNY jeans at Lord and Taylor, on October 29... On the same day, a 45-year-old Hempstead man allegedly took a $60 bottle of Vera Wang perfume at Lord and Taylor... A 55-year-old Garden City woman allegedly took a pair of First Issue Pants and an Apostrophe shirt at Sears on October 29.. .A 45-year-old Hicksville man was observed alleged passing a red light at Cathedral Avenue/Seventh Street on October 27, at 11:45 p.m. PO Graber arrested the motorist , who had also nearly hit 2 cars while driving, for passing a red light, no registration, no insurance, an improper U turn and for the violation of a conditional license due to alcohol... PO Stolz was making a traffic stop at Clinton Rd./Locust Street on October 26, 10:33 p.m., when a vehicle traveling northbound crossed over into the southbound lanes where his patrol car was stopped. Evidently, the driver of that car, a 32-year-old Woodmere men, was taking sleeping pills. PO Stolz was transported to Winthrop Hospital for head and neck injuries and the driver was arrested for the alleged possession of a controlled substance... Between October 28 and 29, someone stole a green Magna boy's bicycle from an unlocked garage. Value was $100... $471 was stolen from an employee's locker at the GC Hotel on October 26... On October 24, 3:25 p.m., PO Buonaiuto arrested a 23-year-old Ridge NY man for the possession of marijuana, as the man fetched his marijuana pipe that had fallen as he crossed Cherry Valley Avenue... PO Bandl arrested a 29-year-old Floral Park man for alleged speeding (67 in a 30 mph zone), no insurance, aggravated unlicensed operation, and for alleged DWI (.12%), at Cherry Valley Avenue, on October 24, 11:45 p.m...

Fire Responses:

FD shut off a boiler at a Princeton Street residence on October 25... A homeowner has just fueled a car, which was placed in a garage at an Oxford Blvd. house on October 25, causing an alarm for an alleged natural gas odor... Telephone wires came down at a Harvard Street house on October 26... Firemen coaxed a child from locked bathroom at a Kildare Rd. house on the same day... A cable box was disconnected at a Heath Place residence on October 26... FD extricated a victim of a car accident at Nassau Blvd, on October 28... LIPA was notified after a tree limb came down in the rear yard of a Westbury Rd. house on October 28... A brush fire was extinguished at Stewart Avenue before FD arrived there on October 29... An overheated light ballast caused alarm at CountySeat Drive on October 29... A burning rubber duck toy in a dishwasher caused alarm at a Huntington Rd. house on October 30... Leaves burned at Chelsea Rd., Brompton Rd., Oxford Blvd., and on St. James St. North, on October 31... There was a truck fire at Stewart Avenue on November 1... That's all this week G. T.