Around Town: Balboa Bay Club brings in car show for Father’s Day

The Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach will produce its ninth annual Father’s Day car and motorcycle show for the public Sunday on the upper deck of the venue’s parking structure.

More than 75 cars and motorcycles, provided by members and friends of the club, will be on display.

The event also will feature a hamburger buffet, a DJ, car trivia, a tattoo artist and a clown making balloon animals.

The Balboa Bay Club is at 1221 W. Coast Hwy. For more information, call Laurie Veitch at (949) 630-4517.

Hundreds of art pieces to be displayed in Newport on Saturday

More than 280 pieces of art by 157 artists from across the nation will be on display Saturday during the 52nd annual Newport Beach Art Exhibition.

The free exhibit will be at the Newport Beach Civic Center from 1 to 6 p.m.

The event, presented by the Newport Beach Arts Commission, is a juried exhibition and sale of paintings, mixed media, sculptures and photography.

The public can chat with artists while enjoying food, wine and music. Part of the proceeds from sold artworks will benefit community art programs in Newport Beach.

The artists also will vie for cash awards in various categories.

Newport troop gets 200th Eagle Scout

Newport Beach’s Troop 90, which meets at the Newport Sea Base, congratulated its 200th Eagle Scout on June 1, when Christian Craft passed his final board of review.

Christian is the third son of John and Katherine Craft to earn the Eagle rank. His brother Justin was Troop 90’s 112th Eagle Scout, and his brother Andrew was the 120th.

Troop 90’s first Eagle Scout achieved the rank in November 1991 in the troop’s third year of existence.

Coastkeeper seeks volunteers to help plant eelgrass in bay

Orange County Coastkeeper, an environmental group based in Costa Mesa, has set a goal to plant 1,280 square meters (about 13,778 square feet) of eelgrass this summer in the diminished eelgrass habitats in Newport Bay.

It plans to have land-based volunteers and certified divers transplant the eelgrass from natural beds nearby.

Eelgrass beds provide habitats for crabs, scallops, fish and other marine species, according to Coastkeeper.

Volunteer shifts are available from 9 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. June 29 through July 2, July 6 through 9 and July 20 through 23.

For more information, visit coastkeeper.org or call (714) 850-1965.

Water district employee raises funds to fight cancer

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa) recently recognized an Orange County Water District employee’s efforts to raise money and awareness to battle children’s cancer.

Beck Mudd of Laguna Beach, a tour coordinator for the district, traveled to Utah’s border with Colorado this year, and last year ran from Huntington Beach to California’s border with Arizona.

Rohrabacher read her efforts into the congressional record.

Mudd is raising money for efforts to fight pediatric cancer. Donations can be made in her name via the Irvine-based Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation at pcrf-kids.org or by calling (949) 859-6312.

UCI names vice chancellor for research

UC Irvine has appointed Pramod Khargonekar as vice chancellor for research, effective June 30.

Khargonekar will provide strategic direction for the Office of Research, which supports UCI faculty’s creative and scholarly activities.

“Pramod’s stellar career as a researcher, educator and national leader makes him an outstanding choice to lead our ambitious efforts to expand the scope and impact of our world-class research,” UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman said in a statement.

Khargonekar most recently served as assistant director for engineering at the National Science Foundation, headquartered in Virginia. While there, he headed the Directorate for Engineering, which invests in engineering research and education, according to a news release.

Reid Day School to offer summer programs

Reid Day School in Costa Mesa will provide summer study programs for students of the school and from local school programs.

Summer offerings include the Summer Catalyst Program in July, which will give first- through sixth-graders group instruction in math, reading, critical thinking and writing, and the Reading Workshop in August, which aims to help first- through third-graders with reading comprehension and phonology.

Reid Day School is for students considered “twice exceptional,” meaning they are gifted and have a learning, emotional or behavioral issue.

The school is at 151 Kalmus Drive.

For more information on the summer programs, visit reidday.org or call (949) 680-9592.