Business briefs: Holiday bookings at Lon's

Restaurants are already booking for Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations.

At Lon's at The Hermosa in Paradise Valley, Chef Michael Rusconi will create a multi-course Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinners.

A Christmas children's menu will be offered for kids 12 years and younger.

Dinners are $65 per person and are offered from 4 to 8 p.m. Dec. 24; and 2 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 25.

Lon's New Year's Eve dinner is $85 for the first seating starting at 5:30 p.m. and $125 for second seating beginning at 7:45 p.m. which includes a champagne toast to ring in the New Year.

For reservations, call 602-955-7878.

The restaurant is at 5532 N. Palo Cristi Road. For more information, visit lons .com.

'Dream Summit' scheduled

The Americans for Prosperity Foundation is having an event on Saturday called "Arizona's Defending the American Dream Summit."

There will be a hot air balloon, which represents what organizers say is all the hot air in the energy debate.

It starts at 8 a.m. at the El Zaribah Shriner Auditorium, 552 N. 40th St.

The cost is $20 for individuals, $30 for families, $120 for a table of eight, and it includes lunch.

The first 100 to register will receive a free leather Americans for Prosperity Foundation portfolio.

For information, contact Tom Jenney, tjenney@afphq.org or 602-478-0146.

Learn about fair-housing laws

Learn about fair-housing practices and laws at a free workshop from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday. Other classes are Dec. 18 and Dec. 30.

The workshop is sponsored by the Phoenix Equal Opportunity departmentand will be at Phoenix City Hall, 200 W. Washington St., Assembly Room A.

Fair-housing practices apply to apartments, houses, condominiums and mobile-home parks. The workshop will explain housing-discrimination investigations.

Call 602-262-7486 to register.