The Village of Palatine is now on Instagram! Follow @villageofpalatine and see all the reasons to love your Palatine community! 

The Village of  is proud to be the first community in Illinois to use SafeEncounter, a web-based platform for residents and caregivers to upload information about dependents who are prone to wander due to cognitive disorders. If someone in your charge has any conditions such as the ones listed below, please consider registering them:

• Alzheimer's
• ADHD
• Asperger's
• Autism
• Blindness
• Cerebral Palsy
• Cognitive Disability
• Deafness
• Dementia
• Developmental Disability
• Down Syndrome
• Epilepsy
• Psychiatric Disability

The American Legion Post 690 is sponsoring a Memorial Day Parade and other related activities on Monday, May 30th beginning at 10 AM with a service at Hillside Cemetery on Smith Street in Palatine immediately followed by a parade.

The parade will start at 10:15 AM at Cornell Avenue and Smith Street. The route will be north on Smith Street, east on Robertson Street, south on Brockway Street, and then east on Wood Street to the Veterans Memorial in Community Park.

Following the parade at 11 AM there will be a short program at the Veterans Memorial and then another ceremony at the Legion Memorial in Towne Square at 150 W. Palatine Road beginning at 12:15 PM.

Community members are invited to the American Legion, across the street from Towne Square, following the ceremonies. The parade will include color guards of the Legion, Auxiliary and Sons of the American Legion, contingents from the Palatine Police and Fire Departments, as well as community leaders and youth groups. For more information please click here.

The warm summer weather brings children and adults back out on the sidewalks throughout our village.  At times, people using the sidewalks find themselves walking in the street to get around vehicles parked blocking the sidewalk.  This creates a potential danger to a child on a bicycle or a person pushing a baby stroller walking in the street to get around an illegally parked vehicle.
 
As a friendly reminder, village ordinance 18-81-12 prohibits blocking the use of sidewalks between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., except when the snow removal ordinance is in effect and both axles of any such vehicle are located on private property.

The law governing the obstruction of the sidewalks is both a local ordinance and a state law.  Violations of the ordinance can result in the issuance of a parking citation.  Please remember to make sure your parked vehicles do not block the usage of any sidewalk.

Community Consolidated School District 15’s Board of Education is currently considering a proposal recommended by members of the administrative team, which is referred to as Moving 15 Forward. This proposal is a community-driven plan designed to focus on addressing long-standing educational and facility needs in order to boldly move the District forward.
 
The District continues to host community information meetings to ensure parents and community members are informed. Meeting details, additional information about the proposed improvements, and a detailed summary of the upgrades planned at each school can be found at www.ccsd15.net/moving15forward.

Now is a great time to prepare for yard and gardening projects. Why not plan to include cost saving and soil health improving compost? The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) offers a free compost delivery program to Cook County residents, schools and non-profit organizations.
 
The MWRD’s Exceptional Quality (EQ) Compost is a sustainable and environmentally beneficial product derived from the water reclamation process that blends biosolids with woodchips, grass clippings and leaves. EQ Compost is rich in organic matter and improves soil structure and porosity, allowing plants to more effectively utilize nutrients. It can be used as mulch, to establish plants and grass, or mixed with soil for pots and planter boxes.
 
There is a 10 cubic yard minimum order size for delivery. For smaller amounts of compost, residents may bring their own buckets, bags and shovels to pick up free compost at one of six water reclamation plants.
 
For more information and to place an order for compost, visit the MWRD’s website.