Around Town: Newport Beach Wine Festival starts Friday
Balboa Bay Resort will host the 13th annual Newport Beach Wine Festival from Friday through Sunday.
A five-course winemaker dinner and reception will take place from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday for $150.
For $65, guests can attend a Cooking with Wine class and lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Saturday also will feature a VIP tasting reception and cruise on the SeaForce 1 yacht from 5 to 7 p.m. for $100 and a grand tasting in the resort’s ballroom from 7 to 10 p.m. for $125.
A Sunday brunch will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Waterline Newport Beach restaurant for $85.
Balboa Bay Resort is at 1221 W. Coast Hwy., Newport Beach.
For more information, call (949) 630-4146 or visit NBWineFestival.com.
84th Scottish Fest comes to Costa Mesa this weekend
The 84th annual Scottish Fest USA hits the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa this weekend for two days of bagpipers, drummers, Scottish and Irish food and vendors, Scottish clans, Highland dancing, Scottish athletics and more.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. General admission is $18. Senior citizens 65 and older get in for $16 and children ages 4 to 13 can enter for $3.
Military personnel and kids 3 and younger are admitted free.
The Fair & Event Center is at 88 Fair Drive. For more information, visit scottishfest.com, email scottishfest@gmail.com or call (310) 951-4302.
Harbor Day students donate cleats to Costa Mesa school
Fifth-grader Henry Bartz and seventh-grader Alex Wainwright of Harbor Day School in Corona del Mar collected and cleaned more than 40 pairs of cleats to donate to Whittier Elementary School in Costa Mesa for students to compete in the Daily Pilot Cup, an upcoming soccer tournament that annually brings together third- through sixth-graders from the Newport-Mesa Unified School District.
After participating in the tournament for the first time two years ago, Henry noticed that some teams did not have cleats like his. He was then inspired to collect the proper shoes for other students and shared his idea with his schoolmate Alex, according to a news release.
Once the two presented their plan to Head of School Angi Evans and Upper School Director Susan Johnson, they began collecting.
The students hope to gather shoe donations for more schools next year.
Killybrooke places third in statewide recycling competition
Killybrooke Elementary School in Costa Mesa took third place in clothing recycler USAgain’s ninth annual Earth Month Challenge.
More than 100 schools throughout California collected a total of 72,034 pounds of textiles for the challenge, according to a news release.
Chicago-based USAgain holds the annual challenge so students can collect shoes and clothes for reuse and recycling. The contest started March 15 and lasted a month.
Winners were selected based on the pounds of textiles each school collected.
Killybrooke gathered 2,304 pounds.
Spot open on Costa Mesa Senior Commission
The Costa Mesa City Council is accepting application to fill a vacancy on the city’s Senior Commission, an advisory body to the council on subjects related to the Costa Mesa Senior Center.
The vacant seat’s term expires in February 2019.
Application forms are available through the city clerk’s office or at costamesaca.gov/apply.
For more information, call (714) 754-5065.
Mariners Christian gets high accreditation ranking
Mariners Christian School earned a high accreditation status this month from the accrediting organizations Association of Christian Schools International and Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
“Dual accreditation is often more difficult to achieve because there are broader and deeper evaluations of school performance — including a higher requirement for teacher and administrator training, and a detailed focus on biblical elements of instruction and organizational practice — than are required by [the Western Association of Schools and Colleges] alone,” Mariners Christian Head of School Troy Moore said in a statement.
As part of the accreditation process, a visiting committee from both organizations, which included other delegates from other private schools in Southern California, toured the school in April.
Newport-Mesa appoints new assistant principals
The Newport-Mesa Unified School District board of education approved the appointments Tuesday of Jeff Perry to assistant principal at Corona del Mar Middle School, Samantha Payne to assistant principal of Ensign Intermediate School and Rebecca Millam to assistant principal of TeWinkle Middle School.
Perry is in his 16th year as an educator in the district. He has served as principal of the special education and general education summer school programs and athletic director at Harbor View Elementary, Estancia and Newport Harbor high schools.
Payne joined the district in 2001 as an English teacher at Corona del Mar Middle and High School.
Millam currently serves as a teacher on special assignment in the vacated position of assistant principal at TeWinkle.