The GC SEPTA meets from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on Friday, October 16 at the GC Public Library, Seventh Street. On Monday, at the library, come to the movie matinee “Chaplin,”1992, 135 minutes, showing at 1:30 p.m. there... THE TRINITY LUTHERAN Church on NHP/Durham Rds. in New Hyde Park, will be hosting a Craft Fair on Saturday, October 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Along with vendors, they will be serving lunch and have a Chinese auction. Call Joyce for more info... On Saturday, October 17 , come have a howlingly good time! The Third Annual Halloween Fest and Haunted Hikes are scheduled at the Garden City Bird Sanctuary opposite 181 Tanners Pond Road. Games and festivities begin at 4 p.m. and following the 5:30 p.m. costume parade, the escorted haunted hikes begin at sundown. Tickets are $10 per person, (children 2 and under are exempt). Enjoy arts and crafts, decorate your own holiday pumpkin, win prizes for games and contests, have a potato sack race or mummy wrapping, get your face painted, and enjoy fine cocoa, coffee and hamburgers available for purchase. The haunted hikes are entertaining and educational. Choose “scary” or “not so scary” and watch out for ghosts, goblins, spider webs or whether the water you are offered to drink is contaminated or not. There may be the ghost of Mark Twain or Mr. Death warning about global warming. The rain date is Sunday, Oct 18 from 3:30 to 8 p.m. For tickets, call 326-1720... THAT SAME DAY , Empire Safety Council’s Defensive Driving Course will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Anne’s Church, school cafeteria, lower level, 25 Dartmouth St. Save 10 percent on collision liability rates for three full years. Save money. Up to four points off driving record. Save lives by training in this smart driving workshop. Make check for $45per person, payable to: Knights of Columbus #11836 and drop off or mail to (with name, address, email, phone number: Defensive Driving Course, St. Anne’s Rectory, 35 Dartmouth St., Garden City, NY 11530. Class is limited. To enroll or for more information call John Russo 384-4552 or John McCabe 633-6146... IF YOU’RE THINKING of adopting a dog, call 944-8220 and the Town of North Hempstead will help you adopt the dog of your dreams...

POLICE REPORT: MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM

ON OCTOBER 9, 10:18 pm., a resident heard a bell ringing at a St. James St. South residence and upon answering it, found a $100 bench broken... DURING THE MIDDLE of the day, on October 10, unknown persons scratched the entire passenger side of a 2009 Hyundai parked at West Street. $2500 damage... ON OCTOBER 9, GC detectives arrested a 24-year-old Cambria Heights male for the possession of a forged instrument and for grand larceny after an extensive investigation stemming from a September 15 incident where the thief allegedly deposited $5,000 in checks at two Wachovia Banks in Hempstead... BETWEEN OCTOBER 9 and 10, a resident found a broken windshield on a Ford Taurus parked at Damson Street. Damage was $265... ON OCTOBER 12, 9:30 p.m., a $330 giant Sadona men’s bicycle was stolen from an unlocked garage at St. James Street South... ON OCTOBER 11, a 50-year-old Bellerose woman allegedly took an Anne Klein skirt, a Ralph Lauren pant, a Jones skirt, 3 CK shorts, and Eileen West nightshirt, 2 Kate Hill items, 1 CK sweater, 1 CK jeans, 6 Kenneth Cole earrings, 1 Anne Klein necklace, and 1 Juicy earrings at Lord and Taylor... BETWEEN NOON and 8 p.m., on October 8, a $75 passenger window was damaged to a 2000 Volvo and a handbag containing credit cards was taken... ON OCTOBER 2, 7:27 p.m., a 17-year-old North Woodmere female allegedly using a burglar tool committed petit larceny at Lord and Taylor. She allegedly took Hardtail sweat pants, 1 Derby jeans, and 3 designer sunglasses, with a total value of $478... On October 8, 4:58 a.m., two males described as Hispanic, in their twenties, with short hair, wearing jeans, allegedly robbed a 62-year-old West Hempstead man at a business at the Roosevelt Field mall. They allegedly struck him from behind, again striking him when he was on the ground, and took $20, a cell phone, and ID cards. An investigation continues...

FIRE RESPONSES:

LIPA WAS NOTIFIED of a large tree down on October 7 at Fairmount. Wires were arcing there... On the same day, police and firemen were at the scene of a lockout at Hampton Rd. Access was made through a bedroom on the second floor with no damage... HEAVY SMOKE was found at 365 Stewart Avenue on October 9, and a technician was found working on a boiler there... FD SHUT OFF a washing machine causing a water leak in the basement at Cambridge Avenue on October 9... A PINE STREET resident was informed of code restrictions when found burning yard waste in a barbecue on October 10... THE FD COMPLETED the extinguishing of a fire on a chair at 636 Franklin Avenue on October 11... TWO YOUTHS were allegedly seen running away from the scene at a NHP Road house where Halloween decorations on a front tree were set on fire. These spooky creations were out before firemen arrived however... ON OCTOBER 13, at Old Country Rd., firemen tried unsuccessfully to rescue a cat trapped in a well there. Animal control was called and the animal was eventually rescued...

That’s all this week. G. T.