Around Town: Nonprofit presents basketball tournament

Mika Community Development Corp., a Costa Mesa-based nonprofit, is presenting its annual C3 basketball tournament and community fair Saturday.

The event at the Downtown Recreation Center, 1860 Anaheim Ave., goes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

It features three-on-three basketball games, art, raffles and other activities. C3 stands for “cops, church and community.”

The event started 12 years ago as a Westside neighborhood-based basketball event to boost community relations with the Costa Mesa Police Department.

Admission is free.

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Tesla wins Mayor’s Award

Tesla Motors, the Palo Alto-based electric car and energy storage company that maintains two facilities in Costa Mesa, was honored this week by Mayor Steve Mensinger with the Mayor’s Award.

Tesla Store Manager Peter Najera and Service Manager Joe Estrada were presented with the award, given during Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

“We are deeply honored, and this is a wonderful and amazing thing that you have done for us,” Najera said in a statement. “We are thrilled to be here in Costa Mesa. It’s a perfect location.”

Tesla has a showroom at 3140 Pullman St., near John Wayne Airport. In fall 2014, it expanded by taking over a second building nearby, at 3020 Pullman, that serves as a service center — one of two in Orange County.

“A typical day finds six service advisors and 20 service technicians servicing 30-35 vehicles per day, making the Costa Mesa location the No. 1 Tesla service center in terms of volume in the entire nation,” Costa Mesa officials said in a news release.

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‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ author to speak in Newport

Jessica Knoll, author of the best-selling thriller “Luckiest Girl Alive,” is scheduled to speak Sunday at the Newport Beach Central Library, starting at 3 p.m.

The event is part of the Newport Beach Public Library Foundation’s “Library Live” series. Doors open at 2 p.m.

Tickets start at $25. For more information, visit nbplfoundation.org or call (949) 548-2411.

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Reid Day School to hold open house

Reid Day School in Costa Mesa will host an open house from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday for interested families to visit classrooms, meet campus team members and get information about learning plans.

The school offers programs for students in grades first through sixth and plans to expand to grades seventh and eighth in 2017-18.

Reid 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.

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Costa Mesa senior-living noted for awards list

Pacifica Senior Living Newport Mesa and Vivante, both in Costa Mesa, were recently noted in SeniorAdvisor.com’s Best of Senior Living awards.

SeniorAdvisor.com provides ratings and reviews for senior care throughout North America.

Best of Senior Living honors assisted-living facilities and home care agencies that possess the highest scores from reviewers. The website has more than 96,000 reviews, according to a news release.

Top facilities must have a 4.5-star rating out of 5 to qualify for the awards.

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Spots for UCI program on wealth management now open

Applications are open for 30 spots in the UC Irvine program “Investments, Financial Planning and You.”

The week-long program for high school students on personal wealth management, investing and financial planning will take place at the university’s Paul Merage School of Business from July 25 to 29.

The program is offered by the Center for Investment and Wealth Management. It costs $995.

Students will take part in presentations, case studies and group projects. They will also learn how to evaluate stocks, bonds and mutual funds.

The deadline to apply is April 30. For more information, call (949) 824-2675 or contact Anne Maki, associate director for the Center for Investment and Wealth Management, at lmaki@uci.edu.

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Costa Mesa library to host book sale

Friends of the Costa Mesa Libraries will have a book sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 30 and noon to 3 p.m. May 1 in the Donald Dungan branch, 1855 Park Ave., Costa Mesa.

More than 5,000 books will be available, priced from 50 cents to $1.

Proceeds will benefit Costa Mesa libraries.