FOR THE THIRD YEAR in a row, the U.S. Tennis Association Eastern (USTA) section will bring its innovative and free “QuickStart” children’s instructional program to tennis courts at eight Nassau County parks. The program will take place on Thursday, July 22, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (rain date: July 23). For more information visit www.nassaucountyny.gov/parks or call 516-572-0200.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS - Greeting visitors at the main museum building, the Arnold & Joan Saltzman Fine Art Building, or The Art Space for Children, assisting in the Museum Shop, and general office support are just some of the opportunities open to volunteers at Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) in Roslyn Harbor. To find out more about volunteer opportunities at NCMA, call Nancy Barone, Director of Volunteers, at (516) 484-9338, ext. 31.

NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (NYIT) will host the Playing for Parkinson’s concert on Sunday, July 18, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., featuring The Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra, to benefit NYIT’s Adele Smithers Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Center. The concert will be held at the W. Kenneth Riland Academic Health Care Center auditorium at NYIT’s Old Westbury campus. Tickets cost $25 per person, and all proceeds are tax-deductible. Reservations are required as seating is limited. For more information about the concert or to reserve seats, please contact Barbara Urban at burban@nyit.edu.

MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM: THE POLICE REPORT

THE REAR WINDOW of a Franklin Avenue business was smashed on July 6th. Loss was $150... A TOM TOM GPS was taken from a vehicle on Garden Street on July 7th. There was no damage to the vehicle.... ALSO ON GARDEN Street, a Schwinn bicycle was stolen from an open garage at 10:30 a.m. on July 9th... SOMEONE DAMAGED a driveway light fixture on Cathedral Avenue on July 10th. Damage was $100.... SOMEONE DAMAGED window panes at a Magnolia Street home in the two weeks prior to July 10th.. . A GARDEN CITY male, age 19, was issued an appearance ticket for possessing beer on July 10th... GARDEN CITY POLICE assisted Nassau County police in apprehending a male, age 33, from Hicksville who was allegedly driving recklessly. The Nassau Police said the man fled after being pulled over on July 10th, but he was ultimately stopped by Garden City Police on Clinton Road. He was charged with DWI, reckless endangerment and disregarding the lawful order of a police officer... SOMEONE STOLE a license plate from a vehicle parked in a driveway on Stratford Avenue on July 11. Upon investigation, police found the plates on other nearby cars had been damaged, apparently in attempts to remove them... THE DRIVER’S side window was smashed on a car behind a Franklin Avnue Business on July 11th. Damage was $200... AN ALERT ST. JAMES Street South resident called police after observing two youths attempt to take a bicycle from a neighbor’s garage. The youths were described as male, Hispanics, age 13-15, 5’10’’. One was wearing jeans and a red shirt; the other, jeans and a black shirt....

ALARMS AND BLAZES: THE FIRE REPORT

THE GARDEN CITY Fire Department assisted in fighting brush fires in Suffolk County on July 7th... FIRE FIGHERS ASSISTED injured people at a motor vehicle accident with injuries at Clinton and Chestnut on July 7th, and also helped clean up spills from the cars.... A ROOSEVELT STREET homeowner called the fire department on July 7th to report a branch on wires... THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ASSISTED a Main Avenue resident who needed oxygen during a power failure on July 7th... A BRUSH FIRE on Tanners Pond Road on July 7th was put out by fire fighters... WATER ENTERING a manhole on Franklin Avenue caused wires to arc on July 8th... A HAMPTON ROAD resident called the fire department about electrical wires burning in the back yard on July 8th... FIRE FIGHTERS put out a dumpster fire on Franklin Avenue on July 9th... FIRE FIGHTERS ASSISTED with an Eleventh Street homeowner who had water entering his basement during a storm on July 10th... ANOTHER MOTOR VEHICLE accident took place at Stewart and New Hyde Park Road on July 12th. Firefighters cleaned up spills from the vehicles.... A STEWART AVENUE homeowner needed assistance with a small stove fire on July 12th... SOMEONE PUT a smoke bomb outside the front door of an Osborne Avenue home on July 12th... THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S house on Eleventh Street had some basement flooding during a storm on July 13th. According to the report, water from the parking lot drains to a patio with an insufficient dry well.... FIREFIGHTERS INVESTIGATED a continuously ringing alarm at an Oxford Blvd. home on July 13th. There was no fire, and to silence the alarm system they had to cut the wires to its speaker.... A ROOSEVELT Street homeowner called the fire department about downed wires on July 13th... A NEW HYDE PARK Road home had basement flooding on July 13th... FIREFIGHTERS assisted a Hathaway Ave homeowner with a water leak on July 13th... AN ADAMS STREET homeowner called about low hanging wires on July 13th... A TOASTER FIRE was reported at a Kingsbury Road home on July 13th... THE FIRE DEPARTMENT assisted the Franklin Square fire department on July 14th by covering their headquarters during a fire in Franklin Square on July 14th...

THE FIRE DEPARTMENT responded to ten additional automatic fire alarms and two requests for assistance with lock outs...

THAT’S ALL FOR NOW. G.T.