City notes

Citizens Appreciate Public Safety is hosting its annual Naperville Police Department Recognition dinner from 6 to 10 p.m. today to honor those police employees selected by members of the public as having providing exceptional service during the past year. The dinner will take place at The Pavilion at Meson Sabika, 1025 Aurora Ave. Visit www.naperville.il.us or call 630-355-1174.

The 19th annual Duck Race, co-sponsored by the Naperville Park District and REACH, will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Riverwalk by Rotary Hill. A table carnival begins at 10 a.m. at Rotary Hill and includes live entertainment, games and more. To sponsor a duck, register online or at the Park District administration building, 320 W. Jackson Ave. The rain date for the duck race only will be May 17. Visit www.napervilleparks.org or call 630-848-5000.

The Naperville Community Gardeners will host their annual plant sale from 7:30 a.m. Saturday to whenever the plants are gone, or by 3:30 p.m. The sale will take place in the gravel parking lot at the West Street Garden Plots, west of Naperville Central High School and Edward Hospital. Talk with community members who are active in gardening and receive free gardening advice. Visit www.napervillecommunitygardeners.org.

In honor of Naperville's Community Heritage Month, Naperville Trolley & Tours is offering two historic trolley tours of Naperville at noon and 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The one-hour tour meets at Jackson and Webster streets. The cost is $8 for children and $5 for adults. Reservations are required. Other May dates the historic trolley tour is being offered to celebrate Community Heritage Month include 11 a.m. May 16; 6 p.m. May 22 and 6 p.m. May 29. The one-hour tour also will be offered every Friday in June, July and August at 11 a.m. For reservations, call 630-420-2223 or e-mail annette@napervilletrolley.com.

On Wednesday the Naperville Cultural Center will host a Ojibwa Sacred Circle led by cultural and spiritual leaders of the Ojibwa tribe, Peter and Irene White. Contact Michelle LeBlanc at 630-696-4177 or e-mail mel@naperculture.org.

The Naperville Park District will be selling tulip bulbs that were planted along the Riverwalk at 8 a.m. May 16 at the Riverwalk Pavilion, south of the Naperville Park District's Administrative Building parking lot, 320 W. Jackson Ave. The cost is $3 per dozen bulbs. Call 630-848-5000.

The city of Naperville's Elderly Services Team is partnering with Cintas to provide Community Shred Day from 8 a.m. to noon May 17 in the Safety Town parking lot, 1320 Aurora Ave. Call 630-420-6725 or visit www.naperville.il.us/shredday.aspx.

The Naperville Area Homeowners Confederation will meet at 8 a.m. May 17 in Meeting Rooms A, B and C of the Municipal Center, 400 S. Eagle St. The meeting will focus on legal responsibilities and protection for individual homeowners and homeowners associations. The confederation also will elect officers and board members. Visit www.napervillehomeowners.org.

Civil War Days takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 17 and 18 at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St. The entire 13-acre site is turned into a Civil War encampment with more than 300 re-enactors portraying the past. Tickets are $9 for adults, $8 for seniors and $6.50 for youth ages 4 to 17. Visit www.napersettlement.museum or call 630-420-6010.

Naperville Park District's Centennial Beach opens for the season May 24. The beach is located at 500 W. Jackson Ave. Visit www.napervilleparks.org or call 630-848-5000.

The Zoning Board of Appeals will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Council Chambers of the Naperville Municipal Center.