The Office Cat

ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, Gathering Time, the harmony trio, which combines the social consciousness of Peter, Paul & Mary with the harmonic complexity of Crosby, Stills & Nash, will take to the Garden Stage, in the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau in Garden City, at 8 p.m. The two-hour concert will feature songs from the group's new CD, Songs of Hope and Freedom, as well as songs slated for future albums, and a few choice cover songs by iconic groups of the folk-rock era. Garden Stage, in the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau, is located at the intersection of Stewart Ave. and Nassau Blvd. in Garden City. Tickets are $15 in advance, $17 the night of the show. For more information, contact calendar@uuccn.org... ON THAT SAME DAY, Sacred Heart Academy presents Disney's Beauty and the Beast March 6, 7, 13 and 14 at 7 p.m. and on Sunday, March 8 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available for $10 for advanced sales and $15 at the door. Performance will be held at Sacred Heart Theatre, 47 Cathedral Avenue, Hempstead. For information and reserved seating, call 483-7383... ON SATURDAY, MARCH 7, all are invited to Café Ablaze, a Christian coffeehouse hosted by Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Garden City, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. to hear contemporary music artist, Sienna. Hailing from Long Island, Sienna has toured constantly for the last four years. Reservations are $10 each, or two for $15. A free will offering will be collected for the talent. Resurrection Lutheran Church is located at 420 Stewart Avenue, Garden City. Enter on the Emmet Place side of the church, by the lighted Café Ablaze sign. Parking is available on side streets bordering the church or in the semi-circular parking area by the Fire House at the end of Emmet Place. Seating is limited, so reserve your table now. Call Lori McDonald, 739-1537... ON MONDAY, MARCH 9, come to the next Senior Citizen Free Legal Consultation Clinic, which will be held from 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. at NCBA, 15th and West Streets, Mineola. This popular free program regularly fills up quickly. Registration is required; call 747-4070 or email info@nassaubar.org. The Nassau County Bar Association (NCBA) provides free monthly legal consultation clinics for Nassau County residents 65 or older. Seniors have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with an attorney for a half-hour private consultation on any topic of concern...ON THE SAME DAY, come to the Look Good, Feel Better program being sponsored by LIJ Medical Center in association with the National Cosmetology Association, the Toiletry Fragrance Association and the American Cancer Society. The program reaches out to women with cancer and teaches them how to best apply makeup and wear their hair while undergoing cancer treatment. Meets on the second Monday of every month at LIJ Medical Center, 27005 76th Ave., New Hyde Park. Reservations suggested, but not required. Call Harriet Pine or Selma Robinton 718-470-7094. All women who attend receive a makeup kit filled with brand-name cosmetics valued at over $200... ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, a public hearing will take place at 7 p.m. at the Nassau BOCES administrative center, located at 71 Clinton Road in Garden City. The hearing, which will take place in Conference Room LL-B, will review the proposed countywide, five-year special education space plan... ALSO THAT DAY, indulge in an evening of poetry readings hosted by Carol Zimet and her loyal group of poets. Anyone who would like to read his/her original work is invited to sit in and join the group. The warm and accepting atmosphere makes it easy to open up and join in. Meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, Country Glen Center, 91 Old Country Rd., Carle Place. Call 741-9850 to confirm the event...

POLICE REPORT :

MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM

ON MARCH 2, DETECTIVES arrested an 18-year-old GC male in connection with a March 1 incident where he had threatened to kill a 17-year-old GC male at his residence... BETWEEN FEBRUARY 28 and March 1, someone broke the front side window to a 2003 Ford parked in a field near Vassar St. and took $500 in cash and a backpack as well as an iTouch valued at $450... DURING THAT SAME period of time, someone smashed a vending machine at the St. Paul's Field House. $1500 in damage... AGAIN IN THAT same time frame, someone damaged a rear window of a Honda Pilot parked at Kensignton Rd. $200 damage... Between February 27 and 28, signs were uplifted and left on the ground, damaging a nearby light post, at the GC Jewish Center... ON FEBRUARY 27, a truck stop was conducted at NHP Road with 13 trucks inspected, 7 trucks taken out of service, and 58 tickets issued... On February 27, 7:15 p.m., someone possibly used a bb gun to damage the front windows of a Huntington Road house... ON FEBRUARY 28, a brick was thrown through the window of a 2002 Mercury parked in a Transverse Rd. driveway. $500 damage... THE REAR WINDOW of a Dodge Minivan was found broken at a Kensington Rd. residence on March 1... ON FEBRUARY 25, a thief took 4 Rogaine kits valued at $200 from CVS... ON FEBRUARY 27, detectives arrested a 30-year-old Mineola man for aggravated harassment, stemming from an incident on January 28 where he allegedly made threatening and obscene text messages from a cell phone to an individual at GC Plaza... ON MARCH 1, police arrested a motorist at Meadow Street where there were switched license plates on the car, and there was also a code warrant from Hempstead Village on that person... ON MARCH 1, 2 GC juveniles were arrested for an incident on February 17, where they had allegedly caused a broken thumb in an assault on a 15-year-old West Hempstead male...

FIRE RESPONSES:

A HEATER VENT blowing sounded an alarm at 1001 Frankin Avenue on February 25... ALSO ON FEBRUARY 25, workers using propane caused an odor at 66 NHP Road... A SCHOOL BUS overheated at 673 Franklin Avenue on February 26... ON MARCH 1, the FD assisted police at a Keenan Place residence where Lifeline had been called because a person had fallen there... FIREMEN ASSISTED police with the entry to a car where a child was locked in, though fortunately asleep, on March 3 at a Wetherill Rd. residence...

That's all this week.G. T.