Time to put on the green for St. Patrick's Day party

The Mount Prospect Senior Advisory Council's annual St. Patrick's Day Party will be March 16 at Manzo's Banquets, 1571 S. Elmhurst Road, Des Plaines.

This party is open to all adults. There will be a cash bar from noon to 1 p.m. and the luncheon is at 1 p.m.

The cost is $20 per person, which must be paid in advance and includes entertainment and door prizes.

Reservations must be made in person at the village of Mount Prospect's Human Services Department, 50 S. Emerson St., by March 11. For information, call (847) 870-5680.

Spring dance: The Prospect Heights Lions Club, serving Wheeling and Prospect Heights, is having its annual Spring Dinner Dance March 8 at Atlantis Banquets, (formerly Mr. Peters) 1273 N. Rand Road, Prospect Heights.

Cocktails start at 6:30 p.m. and dinner follows. The cost is $45 per person, which includes a choice of chicken or fish and an open bar. The evening also will include raffles, prizes and dancing.

For information or reservations, call Shel at (847)870-1940 or Tom at (847) 392-4230.

Planting trees: Today is the deadline to sign up for information about Mount Prospect's cost-share parkway tree-planting programs.

Property owners' share of the cost will be $100 for each 2-inch-to-2½-inch diameter parkway tree.

Cost-share trees may be planted on publicly owned parkways in Mount Prospect wherever there is adequate room and proper growing conditions, as defined by village code.

Additionally, for the first time, the village will offer residents a chance to order private-property tree plantings, but the full cost will fall to property owners. Prices are expected to range from $275 to $395 for each private tree, depending on species.

For both programs, the cost includes installation by a nursery/landscape contractor and a one-year guarantee.

Interested property owners should call the public works department at (847) 870-5640.