Ceradyne named a fastest-growing firm Costa Mesa...

Ceradyne named a fastest-growing firm

Costa Mesa armor manufacturer and ceramics company Ceradyne Inc.

took the third spot on Fortune magazine’s 100 FastestGrowing

Companies list.

The list, posted online, is from Fortune’s Sept. 5 issue. It was

compiled by analyzing companies’ increases in revenues and profits

for three years through the first quarter of 2005. Also considered

included were returns from stock-price appreciation for three years

through June.

Ceradyne’s products include body armor made for U.S. military

forces serving overseas.

The company also announced Wednesday that it had received a

$4-million order for military body armor and a $1.6-million order

from the U.S. Navy for armored helicopter seats. The company expects

to complete the orders by June of next year.

Lock up a pal, help out a good cause

Newport Beach business executives will be locked up today from 11

a.m. to 2 p.m. to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Assn. After

being arrested by association volunteers and Newport Beach

firefighters, they’ll be taken to Tommy Bahamas, 854 Avocado Ave., in

Newport Beach, where they will call friends and colleagues to try to

raise at least $1,800 each.

The money is used to send Orange County children to the Muscular

Dystrophy Assn.’s summer camps. The association supports research,

education and services to fight more than 40 neuromuscular diseases.

For information, call (714) 550-0161.

Lynx docks back in Newport Harbor

The Lynx, a replica of an early 19th-century privateer ship,

returned to Newport Harbor on Wednesday. The ship docked near the

Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, museum executive director David

Muller said.

The ship returned after a more than five-month voyage. The ship’s

schedule is at o7www.privateerlynx.orgf7.