The Office Cat

ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 , the Irish American Society, 297 Willis Avenue, Mineola, will hold its Annual Thanksgiving Dance to start at 8:30 pm. and featuring The Andy Healy Band. Included will be coffee, tea and soda bread and an open bar and a chance to win a turkey. Donation is $15. For information and reservations please call 746-9392... ON THE SAME DAY, Café Ablaze, the Christian Coffeehouse, offers a friendly, casual atmosphere with candlelit tables where singles, couples, and groups of friends can relax on scheduled Saturday nights! Enjoy great coffee, desserts and snacks, as well as a concert by recording artists, Eyewitness, from 7:30-10:30 p.m. Park on the street and enter the Emmet Place side of Lutheran Church of the Resurrection at 420 Stewart Ave. near Clinton Road in Garden City. Reserved tickets $10; two for $15! A good will offering for the band will be taken at intermission, and their CDs will be sold. Call Lori for information and to reserve tickets at 739-1537... IF YOU'RE THINKING of adopting a dog, try the town animal shelter by calling 944-8220... ON FRIDAY, November 21, the Hillside United Methodist Church will hold its Christmas Fair from 3 to 8 p.m. and again on Saturday, Nov. 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 2801 Hillside Avenue, New Hyde Park, between Marcus and Herricks Road. The fair will feature handmade items including Afghans, Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations, cakes and jams. Also, there will be jewelry, books, records, white elephants, a tool room and new gift items. On Friday there will be a Taiwanese chicken noodle dish and on Saturday, a Korean specialty. Homemade soups, quiche, brownies, etc. along with the usual hamburgers and franks. For further information, please call 437-7580... THE IRISH AMERICAN SOCIETY, 297 Willis Avenue, Mineola, will hold its regular monthly dance to start at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, November 28. Donation is $20. Featured is Sean Wilson and his band. Included will be coffee, tea, Irish soda bread and there will be an open bar. For reservations and information, please call 746-9392... THE AMERICAN RED CROSS and Pitney Bowes Inc. are teaming up to send holiday cards to members of the military and their families in the United States and around the world. Until Wednesday, December 10, the public is invited to send holiday cards with their message of thanks and cheer to a special post office box. The Red Cross and Pitney Bowes will then screen cards for hazardous materials, sort and package the cards, and deliver them to military bases, veteran's hospitals and military hospitals during the holidays. Holiday cards should be addressed and sent to: Holiday Mail for Heroes P.O. Box 5456, Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456; Please be sure to affix adequate postage. Cards must be received no later than December 10...A LIMITED NUMBER of paid summer internship opportunities are available for college students in the office of Nassau County Comptroller Howard S. Weitzman.As Nassau's fiscal watchdog, the Comptroller is responsible for monitoring the county's budget and financial operations, reviewing claims and contracts, and auditing county agencies and contractors. The Comptroller also administers payroll and health benefits for the county. Those interested in being considered should send a resume and a brief cover letter explaining what they hope to gain from the experience to: Internships, Nassau County Comptroller's Office, 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, N.Y. 11501. Only Nassau County residents will be considered. The deadline for applications is January 30, 2009. For more information, call (516) 571-2386...

POLICE REPORT: MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM:

BETWEEN NOVEMBER 17 and 18, someone stole a GPS valued at $200 from a car parked at Elm Street... FIVE BCBG SHIRTS and one Buffalo shirt, with a total value of $948, were allegedly taken by a 49-year-old Garden City South woman at Lord and Taylor, on November 12... BETWEEN NOVEMBER 14 and 17, unknown persons damaged a goal post valued at $3,000 at the Garden City High School...A $150 Canon camera and a briefcase ( which was recovered later) were taken from a car parked at Linbergh Street, between November 15 and 16...DETECTIVES MADDEN and Rothermel arrested a 51-year-old Bayside man for alleged harassment of a GC woman, on November 15. The domestic incident had occurred in October...POLICE ARRESTED a 51-year-old Glen Cove man who allegedly had taken Vanilla musk perfume, assorted jewelry, undergarments, and a Timex watch valued at $140 at Sears on November 13...A $165 APPLE IPOD Nano was taken from an office at GC Plaza between November 13 and 14...On November 12, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., a pine street homeowner returned home to find that $3,000 in jewelry and $500 was missing. Someone had ripped off a rear screen...SOMEONE TOOK a glass side view mirror off a BMW parked at Field 7 N on November 12, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m...Unknown persons took a $350 GPS from a parked car at Kenwood Rd. between November 11 and 12... PO Wehr arrested a 47-year-old Garden City man for alleged DWI (.17%) at Seventh Street at 2:20 a.m. on November 12...

FIRE RESPONSES:

FUMIGATORS ACTIVATED an alarm at a building on Franklin Avenue on November 12...FD FOUND AN OVERHEATED bathroom fan in a vacant apartment on Second Street, on November 13...SMOKE FROM COOKING set off an alarm at Meadbrook Rd. on the same day...balloons in a second floor rotunda set off an electric eye in a detector at 1550 Franklin Avenue on November 15 and building reps were notified...A WATER LINE malfunction caused a boiler to overheat at a Euston Rd. house on November 17...A 2-CAR ACCIDENT occurred on Hilton Avenue on November 18, where both drivers went to Winthrop Hospital for minor injuries...Power was disconnected from an overheated light ballast at John Street on November 18...A BRUSH FIRE broke out at Hilton Avenue/LIRR on the same day, and an extinguisher/booster put out the fire...

That's all this week.G. T.