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City Café of 987 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, is hosting "A Taste To Remember" fundraiser on Thursday, May 15, 7 to 10 p.m. to benefit the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island. Bring your dancing shoes and enjoy live entertainment, hors'd'ouvres, wine tasting, beer and spirits. Raffles, a Silent Auction and 50/50 chance will also be available. Tickets to the event, at $55.00 each are sold in advance. For additional information or to reserve your ticket, you may call 516-222-1421... If you're thinking of adopting a dog, try the Town of North Hempstead Animal Shelter first at 944-8220...On Friday, April 25, come to the teen book group, which is also held on the fourth Friday of each month at 8 p.m. at Borders, 1260 Old Country Rd., Westbury. Call 683-8700...The Art League of Nassau County is holding a monthly meeting and demonstration by a guest artist. Meets on the fourth Friday of each month at the New Hyde Park Recreation Center, Clinton G. Martin Park, Marcus Ave. and NHP Rd., NHP (near Union Tpke.) at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited. Refreshments served. Call 437-0919. Nonmembers $2. No meetings in June, July, August, December...Also that day, come see the Hofstra Chorale group with David Fryling, director. Featuring a program of accompanied and unaccompanied works for choir from several historical periods. Performance is 8 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Cathedral Ave. Tickets are available only through the Cathedral of the Incarnation office by calling 746-2955. Tickets are $15, $12 for senior citizens (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra students with ID. Members of the Hofstra community receive one free ticket with current HofstraCard. Tickets will also be sold at the door... On Saturday, April 26, A Study of Catholic Female Leadership in 19th-century America will take place at 1 p.m. in the Nassau Community College Center Building, One Education Dr. The lecture will be presented by Dr. Marynita Anderson. Dr. Christopher Poulios will serve as discussant. No cost to attend. Registration required. Call 572-7472... Also that day, Federal Judge and author, James J. Brown, will be at Borders, 1260 Old Country Rd., Westbury, for a book signing event from 1 to 3:30 p.m. He is the author of Will The Laughter Stop? Baby Boomer Chronicles, which is set on Long Island, and is a nostalgic take on the life of a baby boomer. The novel includes locations in Mineola and Williston Park. See: www.babyboomerchronicles.com. Call 683-8700... Also that same day, Hofstra University's Center for Continuing Education and Professional Advancement, in partnership with the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators presents the 24th Annual Children's Literature Conference, "Telling Your Story," from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Mack Student Center. The cost is $99 per person, with a $5 discount for SCBWI members. The conference is an opportunity for published and aspiring writers and illustrators to gather with librarians, educators, editors, booksellers, and all others who wish to create or share books for children. The keynote speaker will be Kate McMullan, author of 100 books. To register or for more information, visit ccepa.hofstra.edu or call 463-7600.. On Sunday, April 27, come watch the Hofstra String Quartet with Alexander Sharpe, violin; Matthew Lehmann, violin; Todd Low, viola; and Benjamin Wolff, violoncello. This concert will feature a program of 20th-century string quartets, featuring Henry Cowell's no. 5, Michael Tippet's no. 1, and Charles Ives' no. 1. Performance is 3 p.m. at the Monroe Lecture Center Theater, California Ave., South Campus. Tickets are $15; $12 senior citizens (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra students with ID. Members of the Hofstra community receive one free ticket with current HofstraCard. Call the Hofstra Box Office 463-6644... The LI Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation will host its 6th Annual Gala fundraising event at 7 p.m. on May 1 at the Garden City Hotel. The event raises money to support the foundation's cause of finding a cure for juvenile diabetes and its complications. In addition to dinner and dancing, highlights will include Fund-A-Cure, a JDRF-unique live auction which provides guests an opportunity to raise even more money, 100 percent of which goes directly to diabetes research and is tax deductible. The gala will also feature both live and silent auctions with an assortment of exciting prizes. Call Karen Prikios or Barbara Rogus 631-659-2309, ext. 17 or the JDRF 631-414-1126... Police Report: Mischief and Mayhem On April 18, GC Police were notified at 4:55 PM, that a male was acting in a lewd indecent manner inside the St. Joseph's Church. Officers Sommer and Becket responded to the scene and discovered that a man described as a white man, 38-years old from Malverne, was attempting to leave the church there. The officers approached him and he admitted to committing the indecent lewd act in the church. He was placed under arrest and charged with Public Lewdness... On April 19,at 5:38 AM, an off duty NCPD employee observed a vehicle operating westbound on the wrong side of the median in the east bound lanes. The vehicle then proceeded to drive south on Hilton Avenue. Officer Oswald stopped the vehicle in the vicinity of Fulton Street in Hempstead. The driver, a 30-year-old Baldwin woman, was arrested and charged with DWI (.12%)...Between April 17 and April 18, unknown persons scratched the driver side to a 2007 Mercedes Benz in the driveway of a Rockaway Avenue residence. Damage was $1,200... Fire Responses: On April 18, there was a false alarm at a Washington Avenue residence... Wires were hanging in the rear yard of an Oxford Blvd. residence on April 20 and the resident there was advised to call Cablevision... That's all this week. G. T.