Aliante aids shelter

The Aliante master-planned community will host its fifth annual Ice Cream Sunday and Pet Adoption from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. The event is free and open to the public at Aliante's Nature Discovery Park in North Las Vegas.

Free ice cream will be provided to visitors by Meadow Gold, along with entertainment and music by D.J. Tony, face painting, bounce houses, games and prizes. A highlight of the event will be the Ice Cream Sunday Olympics, featuring a Hula-Hoop Scoop and Pool Duel, Frozen T-Shirt Contest. Other food and refreshments will be available for sale.

The Lied Animal Shelter will supervise the pet adoption in the park. Adoptable dogs representing a variety of breeds and ages will be brought from the shelter throughout the day.

"We are very pleased to co-sponsor this fifth annual benefit for Lied Animal Shelter," said Dan Naef, senior vice president of North Valley Enterprises LLC, the developer of Aliante.

"This event will benefit an organization that cares for, and finds loving homes for abandoned animals on a daily basis. Aliante has been hosting pet adoptions since 2003 and with more families living here than ever before, we're confident that this will be our most successful Ice Cream Sunday and Pet Adoption to date," Naef said.

Nature Discovery Park features a dinosaur dig play area, prehistoric-themed play equipment and a water-spraying serpent. The park is located at 2627 Nature Park Drive, near the southeast corner of Interstate 215, the Las Vegas Beltway, and Aliante Parkway.

Along with annual pet adoptions, Aliante has also hosted four Trails & Tails running and walking events, which have raised many thousands of dollars for the Lied Animal Shelter, he said.

Today's Ice Cream Sunday and Pet Adoption event will be co-sponsored by North Valley Enterprises, Lied Animal Shelter and KSNE, 106.5-FM.

To reach Nature Discovery Park, take U.S. Highway 95 north to I-215 Exit East. Head east on the I-215, exit at Aliante Parkway and proceed south.

For information, visit aliantehomes.com or call 866-787-2951.

More free, family oriented outdoor events are scheduled through 2007 at Aliante. For information, pick up a free event calendar at the Aliante Information Gallery, located at 2600 Nature Park Drive, at the southeast corner of I-215 and Aliante Parkway.

Aliante encompasses more than 1,900 acres. Home builders include Astoria, Del Webb, D.R. Horton, KB, Lennar, Pardee and Pulte. Homes are priced from the high $100,000s to the low $600,000s.

To visit, take U.S. Highway 95 to I-215 and exit east. Make a right onto Sky Pointe Drive, a right onto Frontage Road, and then a left onto the Beltway. Head east to the Aliante Parkway exit, then go south.

The sales office is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Call 866-787-2951 or visit aliantehomes.com for more information.