The Office Cat

If you are thinking of adopting a dog, try the Town of North Hempstead Animal Shelter first. Call 944-8220...On Sunday, December 9, 3 PM, come to the pipe organ music being performed at Chaminade H. S., Jackson Avenue, Mineola. $12. Call 457-5393...On Saturday, December 15, 8:30 PM, Tommy Goodwin's band plays at the Irish American Center, 297 Willis Avenue, Mineola. Call 746-9392 to make reservations...On December 9, the Chamber Music Society performs at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 223 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, at 3 PM. Music by Takemitsu, Adolphe, and Beethoven. Call 248-8855...The annual St. Anne's Sponsor A Family program's deadline is December 8 for picking a family to sponsor with food and gifts this Christmas. Call Maureen Smith at 437-7319 for a family in Wyandanch or Ann Macera at 352-0659 to sponsor a family in Uniondale...Well spouses or partners of the chronically ill may meet at the St. Charles Rehab Center, 201 I.U. Willets Rd., Albertson, on the secoond Wednesday of each month. Call Rose at 516 829-8740...On Saturday, December 8, registration begins for Paper Toys with Miguel Cossio for grades K-2 to be held at the GC Public Library, Seventh Street, on December 15. On Wednesday, December 12, 9:30 AM, registration begins for Open Mic Night to be held on December 26...

Police Report: Mischief and Mayhem

On November 29, 6 PM, PO Sommer arrested a 36-year-old Elmont woman for allegedly stealing $87 in merchandise: Bobbi Brown lip gloss, a tie, a hair tie and a beret, at Lord and Taylor... On December 4, someone took cash from a pocketbook in an office desk at an Old Country Road business... Between November 26 and December 2, a thief damaged the rear door at a Euston Rd. house ( $200 in damage) and stole a SONY 40" HDTV and other items at a total value of $3,000...On December 1, someone took property from a locker at the GC Hotel. A wallet containing $60, numerous credit cards, and a $350 jacket were taken... Between November 29 and 30, unknown persons entered an unlocked car and took a $200 IPOD... PO Oswald arrested a 51-year-old Port Washington man for alleged speeding at 50 in a 30 mph zone, driving in 2 lanes, no seatbelt, and alleged DWI (.15%), at Washington Avenue on December 2, 3:40 AM...Between November 25 and 26, someone took a pocketbook/wallet containing personal papers from an unlocked car on Meadow Street...

Fire Responses:

FD used a 1 3/4 handline to extinguish a fire at Fairmount Blvd. residence on December 1... An overheated light ballast caused alarm at a Transverse Rd. house on December 2... A discarded cigarette accidentally ignited trash at the Nassau Blvd. RR station on December 2... Oil that had leaked out of a gear box on a washing machine caused an odor in a basement at a Kilburn Rd house on December 2. FD disconnected the electric there...FD used natural ventilation to dissipate smoke, which resulted from an overheated light ballast at a Franklin Avenue business on December 3... Firemen shut down the boiler at an Iris Lane house on December 4, after carbon monoxide levels were found there...

That's all this week.

G. T.