Lake Las Vegas to celebrate Mardi Gras today

Lake Las Vegas and MonteLago Village Association plan to hold a Mardi Gras Festival today and invite the public to enjoy the party from noon to 6 p.m. The celebration starts with parades at noon, 2 and 4 p.m.

The Mardi Gras parade will include guest celebrity performances from Strip shows, students from Thurman White Middle School's Academy of Performing Arts, students and artists from the Positively Arts Foundation and volunteers from Dignity Health. Also, there will strolling musicians, stilt walkers, face-painters, bounce house, bake sales, entertainment from the Positively Arts Foundation and health-awareness booths. Dignity Health and its cardiac unit volunteers will be onsite to help bring awareness to the importance of heart health with February's designation as American Heart Month.

Festival entry is a suggested donation of $5 to benefit the not-for-profit St. Rose Dignity Health and Positively Arts Foundation. The nonprofit foundation brings today's professional artists together with aspiring students to ensure the performing arts continue to thrive despite the financial difficulties that so many schools are forced to navigate.

MonteLago Village is at 15 Costa di Lago in Henderson. For information about the Mardi Gras Festival, visit www.lakelasvegasevents.com.

There also will be a Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball aboard the La Contessa yacht from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $89 per person and include an open premium bar, hors d'oeuvres, music, photo booth and party favors. Guests are encouraged to wear costumes and masks. The yacht will set sail from the Lake Las Vegas Marina in MonteLago Village. To buy tickets for the Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball, visit www.eventbrite.com.

Lake Las Vegas Resort is a premier residential, golf and resort destination situated on a privately owned 320-acre lake that features 10 miles of shoreline. The lake offers fishing, sailing and swimming. Within the 3,592-acre master-planned community are residential offerings, two championship golf courses, three world-class hotels, and 50 acres of open space with hiking and biking trails.

The Mediterranean-inspired community includes pampering spas, a full-service marina with watercraft rentals and yacht cruises and MonteLago Village — a retail enclave at the center of the resort. Lake Las Vegas is in Henderson, 17 miles east of the Strip and adjacent to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Lake Las Vegas residential offerings include custom and estate homesites with panoramic views of the lake, golf courses, open space and surrounding mountainsides. Waterfront villas, single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums also are offered.

For information, visit www.lakelasvegas.com.

Inspired by the beauty of centuries-old Mediterranean villages, MonteLago Village is a pedestrian-only experience where streets curve to plazas lined with a unique collection of shops and boutiques, lakeside restaurants and quaint outdoor cafes with residential units on the floors above evoking a classic European community. The 55,000-square-foot village is part of the Lake Las Vegas residential, golf and resort destination and borders the 320-acre lake. It is adjacent to the Hilton, Lake Las Vegas Resort and Spa and Aston MonteLago Village Resort offering one-, two- and three-bedroom condominiums, and down the parkway is the Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort and Spa.

Lake Las Vegas Marina, tucked along the water's edge of the village, offers rentals of canopied electric boats, gondolas, kayaks, peddle boats, the Flyboard Las Vegas Experience, and the newest addition of stand-up paddleboards to transport guests and residents between the Westin and village. For information about MonteLago Village and its events, visit www.lakelasvegasevents.com.