NO NEED FOR MICKEY: Glendale-based Walt Disney...

NO NEED FOR MICKEY: Glendale-based Walt Disney Imagineering is negotiating to help design and build Baltimore’s planned $25-million children’s museum. . . . WDI, which designed Disneyland and other Disney theme parks, could conceive new characters for the Port Discovery museum, “but there will be no Disney characters,” said company exec Bran Ferren.

MORAL AWARDS: And the winners are . . . moral values. Just in time for the Academy Awards, two religious groups will bestow their own awards honoring movies and television shows that promote high moral precepts (B13). The Universal Sheraton Hotel will host one of the ceremonies. Some of the winners include “Forrest Gump” and “Picket Fences.”

LION KING: What was the exiled king of Rwanda, King Kigeli V, above, doing with actress Tippi Hedren at the Shambala Wildlife Preserve in Acton? Ask the Monarchist League. . . . The London-based organization, which helps reinstate deposed royalty worldwide, toured Kigeli around the Southland to aid the civil war-wracked country. The ex-king’s carriage: a Honda Civic (B1).

GRANDPA WIZARD: For the 350 kids at Round Meadow Elementary School in Hidden Hills, a visit from the original Mr. Wizard was a real bang (B3). Don Herbert, 77, concocted a miniature cannon right before their eyes. But for students Spencer and Danielle Nikosey, the explosion Friday was nothing new. Herbert is their grandfather. “When you hang out with grandpa, you get to blow up stuff,” said Spencer.

MONTCLAIR CHAMPS: What a difference a year makes. Last season Montclair Prep of Van Nuys failed even to make the Southern Section basketball playoffs. This year the Mounties won the state Division V championship . . . defeating University High of San Francisco 83-67 Friday afternoon at the Oakland Coliseum Arena (C12).