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On Saturday, July 14, the Church of the Holy Spirit is offering a defensive driving course. Cost is $45 and it removes up to 4 points from your driving record, and includes a 10 percent reduction on insurance premiums. Call 631 360-9720...On Saturday, July 14, the Irish American Society, 297 Willis Avenue, Mineola is holding a dance featuring the music of Mickey Perry's Tradition Alive Band at 8:30 PM. $15 per person. Call 746-9392...If you are thinking about adopting a dog, call 944-8220. There are many beautiful animals waiting at the shelter there...On Saturday, July 7, come to the Spirituality for Singles, which gathers in the cafeteria of the Upper School of the St. Aidan School for discussion following a Mass at 7:30 PM at church. Call 746-6585...On Friday, July 6, 6:30 PM, the Eating Disorder Council holds a support group for compulsive overeating, anorexia, and bulimia, at the Hoag Room, Winthrop Hospital, 259 First Street. Call 962-2778...The Plattdeutsche Volkfest Vereen is holding a Volksfest German-American Festival on Saturday, July 14, and Sunday, July 15, at the Plattdeutsche Restaurant fairgrounds, 1132 Hempstead Tpke., Franklin Square. Activities for the children including free rides, balloons and ice cream. Park opens at 2 PM on Saturday and at 11 AM on Sunday, and admission is $7. Call 354-3131 for more info...On Thursday, July 12, 1:30 PM, come see Dreamgirls, starring Eddie Murphy, Beyonce Knowles and Jennifer Hudson, at the GC Public Library, Seventh Street...

Police Report: Mischief and Mayhem

Between 11 AM and 9 PM on June 27, someone burglarized a Jefferson Street house and stole 2 laptop computers valued at $2500, 1 Nintendo valued at $350, and a 2002 Lexus RX 300 valued at $14,000... A truck stop was held at New Hyde Park Road on June 27, and 8 trucks were inspected with7 trucks taken out of service, 33 weight violations, and 80 total tickets...PO Bandl arrested a 25-year-old New Hyde Park woman for alleged DWI ( .15%), and allegedly speeding at 55 in a 30 at New Hyde Park Rd., on June 24...On June 29, PO Dallolio and PO Sansone arrested a 20-year-old Garden City man for criminal mischief felony after he was observed throwing the top of a garbage can through a window of a NHP Rd. business at 2:15 AM. He also had marijuana...PO Hickey arrested a 23-year-old Wyandanch man for alleged DWI (.13%) and allegedly speeding at 60 in a 30 at Old Country Rd. on July 1...PO Bandl arrested a 20-year-old Elmont man for alleged DWI (refusal), and alleged speeding( 65 in a 30), at NHP Rd., near Dartmouth Street, on June 29, 5:07 AM...PO Hickey arrested a 31-year-old Westbury man for alleged DWI, and no insurance, at St. James Street So./Clinton Rd., on June 30. The charge was a felony because of a previous DWI conviction...A 25-year-old Hollis man was arrested for DWI (refusal) at 4:44 AM on June 30, after he allegedly drove over lane markings at Cambridge Avenue...A 44-year-old East Meadow woman and her 19-year-old daughter were arrested at Lord and Taylor on June 23 at 2:45 PM after they allegedly took a $128 BCBG pair of shorts, a $67.89 pair of pants, and an $88 Free People sweater... Between June 29 and 30, a 1993 Voyager's rear window was found broken at Tannerspond Rd. $250 in damage...On July 1, 11:30 PM, a 16-year-old Far Rockaway male was arrested for the possession of a controlled substance 7th degree( crack cocaine) at Field 2S... police responded to the scene of a 2-car accident involving two women, one of whom, a 79-year-old Lynbrook woman, had been ejected from her car there on Hilton Avenue/Sixth Street and who was later pronounced dead at Winthrop Hospital...

Fire Responses:

A chimney at a Wetherill Rd. house was struck by lightning on June 27...Fumes from painting set off an alarm at Adelphi University on June 28... Speedidry mitigated a spill at Chester Avenue on June 28... A booster was used to extinguish a brush fire at the RR tracks near Field 6E on June 30...A car fire was extinguished by the FD at the scene of a car accident at Raymond Ct./Stewart Avenue, on July 1...An outside oil tank was leaking in the front of a Monroe Street house on July 1...Keyspan was notified of an odor of gas at the GC Middle School on July 1...A malicious fire alarm occurred at the GC Stewart School on July 1 after a vandal had discharged a fire extinguisher there...That's all this week.G. T.