Around Town: Planter race aims to fill Costa Mesa High Legacy Garden
The public is invited to help complete the Costa Mesa High School Legacy Garden by participating in a competition from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday to fill eight planter boxes with native California plants as fast as possible.
Eight groups of four will compete in the planter race, presented by the Newport Banning Land Trust. The winning team will get a Newport Rib Co. dinner.
Those who want to sponsor a legacy plant for $10 will get a wooden plaque in their name.
The event will be in the school’s garden area next to the softball field at 2650 Fairview Road.
To sign up, email Robyn Vettraino at robyn@newportbanninglandtrust.org or Sam Mitchell at sam.mitchell98@gmail.com.
Open house Thursday for Working Wardrobes’ new location
Working Wardrobes will host an open-house party from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at its new, larger office in Irvine.
Working Wardrobes, which spent the past five years based in Costa Mesa, provides career training and professional wardrobe services for people who need help entering the workforce.
The new Irvine office is at 1851 Kettering St.
Golf event will help raise funds for diabetes education
The 12th annual PADRE Turf and Surf Golf Tournament to benefit the Pediatric-Adolescent Diabetes Research and Education Foundation will be held Friday at the Meadowlark Golf Club in Huntington Beach.
The PADRE Foundation, in partnership with the Mary & Dick Allen Diabetes Center at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach and Children’s Hospital of Orange County in Orange, offers Type 1 diabetes education and support programs for children and their families.
The golf tournament is sold out, according to the foundation.
Junior League of Orange County gets new president
The Newport Beach-based Junior League of Orange County has named Sara Young of Irvine as its president.
Young first joined the nonprofit in 2010 and served on its training, community, fund development and operations councils.
She also is a director in the special-education department at the Capistrano Unified School District.
UCI business school fills new post for external relations
David Knuff has been appointed to the new position of assistant dean of external relations at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine.
Knuff will be responsible for aligning outreach and program offerings, according to a news release.
“As we make progress toward achieving our strategic goals, we have realigned our external relations operations to better reflect the growing number of opportunities for the school to engage with the business community,” Eric Spangenberg, Merage School dean, said in a statement.
Knuff, who joined the Merage School in 2014, previously was assistant dean and executive director of the school’s executive education program.