The Office Cat
By: Gabby Tabby

On Saturday, December 1, come to the Kristkind Markt at Plattduetsche Park, 1132 Hempstead Tpke., Franklin Square, from 9 AM to 5 PM, and on December 2, from 11 AM to 4 PM. Large variety of Christmas goods, raffle tickets, and food. Call 488-7237.....If you are thinking of adopting a dog, try the Town of North Hempstead Animal Shelter first. Many beautiful dogs are waiting and Saturday is a big adoption day. Call 944-8220...On December 8, the Hillside United Methodist Church is holding a flea market from 10 AM to 4 PM, there will be old and new merchandise and food! Call 437-7580 for info...On Monday, December 3, 1:30 PM, come see "The Sea Hawk,"1940, 127 minutes, at the Monday Movie Matinee, GC Public Library, Seventh Street. Also at the library, between 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM, on that same day, the American Association of University Women meets. On December 4, 7 PM, holiday baking is being done there. On Thursday, December 6, 1:30 PM, Pygmalion is being shown, 1938, 95 mins... On December 2, the Singles Association of LI meets at 4:30 PM, Domenico's Restaurant, 3250A Hempstead Tpke., Levittown. Admission is $4 for non-members. Pizza at 5 PM. Bring the movie section. RSVP by November 30 if you can to 516 825-0633. Must be 25 and over...Spirituality for Sin-gles meets at 7:30 PM in St Aidan's Church, 505 Willis Avenue, Williston Park, on December 1. $5 donation at door. Call 746-6585...Currier and Ives Celebrates winter at Clark Botanic Gar-den, 193 I. U. Willets Rd., Albertson, on Sunday, December 2, 1 PM. Mickey Cohen will give a talk on the 19th century lithographs of Currier and Ives. $ 15 for non-members...Create a beautiful centerpiece made of fresh pines and greens at East Williston Village Hall, 2 Prospect Street, East Williston, on Wednesday, December 12, 7:30 PM. $50 donation. Reservations must be received no later than December 3. Your name and check made payable to: Winthrop University Hospital Auxiliary, then send to: Wings of Winthrop, PO Box 449, Williston Park, NY 11596. Bring pruners or clippers...All are welcome to a GC Ski Club meeting at the Knights of Colum-bus, 1000 Marcus Avenue, New Hyde Park, on Wednesday, December 5, 7:30 PM...Well spouses or partners of the disabled may meet at the St. Charles Rehab Center, 201 I. U. Willets Rd., Albertson, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM on the second Wednesday of each month...

Police Report: Mischief and Mayhem

Between November 26 and 27, an $150 Schwinn mountain bike was stolen from a Washington Avenue residence...On November 22, 12:05 AM, a Garden City South woman was hit in the back with a baseball bat while she walked on Cambridge Avenue. She was taken to Winthrop Hospital and an investigation continues... Someone threw a turkey through the window of a St. Paul's Place residence between November 21 and 22. Damage was $400...GC Police assisted the Glen Cove Police Department after it was reported that a 22-yesr-old Yonkers male had entered a Glen Cove residence without authority on November 19. The man took a car and fled, eventually allegedly assaulting a police officer and damaging a police car at Rockaway Avenue. He was charged with assault on a police officer, criminal mischief to a police car, and attempted stolen vehicle, as well as numerous other traffic violations...Between November 23 and 24, someone stole a $500 Nutcracker ornament at the Gazebo and damaged other ornaments as well at $200 in damage. On November 24 a 25-year-old Hollis woman allegedly took a $350 Diesel coat at Lord and Taylor... Detective Madden arrested an 18-year-old Floral Park female and a 17-year-old Bayside male after an investigation stemming from an incident where a credit card had been stolen from an unattended bag at Adel-phi University on November 19. It seems the two had used the card for the purchase of sweatshirts, and they were charged with forgery, grand larceny, and petit larceny... On November 22, 2:10 AM, PO Hickey arrested a 19-year-old Mineola male for alleged speeding (50 in 30 mph zone), alleged DWI (refusal), and the possession of 17 small bags of marijuana, at Franklin Avenue/Eleventh Street... On November 24, 4:25 AM, a 28-year-old Roosevelt woman was allegedly DWI (.15%) at Franklin Avenue. PO Oswald arrested the motorist on the charges of DWI, unsafe lane change, and no insurance... PO Hickey also arrested a motorist on November 25, 4:33 AM, for alleged speeding at 46 in a 30 mph zone, no registration, no inspection, aggravated unlicensed operation 2nd degree. It seems the motorist had pulled into a John Street driveway at one point with lights out, in order to avoid police...On November 25, 4 AM, PO Oswald arrested a 26-year-old Lynbrook woman for alleged DWI (.20%), the failure to signal a turn, and for no insurance at Clinton Road. She had been driving with a garbage can under the car...Police arrested a 26-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina man for al-leged DWI (.19%), and unlicensed operation, at Old Country Rd., on November 22, 4:12 AM, after the motorist was involved in an accident where he allegedly struck a car being driven by an Elmont man...

Fire REsponses:

A Verizon technician evidently pierced a heating pipe while drilling at a Vassar Street residence on November 21. FD contacted plumber to help the resident...Firemen shut off the power to an oven at an Eton Rd. house on November 22, after a small fire occurred while the oven was in self-clean mode...FD found a faulty top of a burner arcing at a Tanners Pond Rd. residence on November 22... A booster was used to extinguish a fire on a tree at a Brook Street house on November 23. Witnesses say juveniles had been using fireworks there...Embers from a fireplace caused alarm at a Wyatt Rd. house on November 24. Mechanical ventilation was used to clear carbon dioxide...A booster was used to extinguish a fire caused by leaves burning at Pine Street/Boylston Street, on November 25...FD advised a woman to change the battery of a garage door opener that was not working properly at a Cedar Place house on November 27...

That's all this week.

G. T.