• The ninth annual Chester County Balloon Festival is this weekend, June 19-21, at Toughkenamon Airport. The three-day event includes airplane and helicopter rides, a Future Aviator Kid Zone, music and food along with 20 hot air balloons taking flight twice per day and with a nightly balloon glow. For more information, go to www.ccballoonfest.com

• It’s time to Rock the Mill again. The Newlin Grist Mill is holding this year’s Rock the Mill Music Festival from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 27. Food, activities for kids and 10 musical acts are scheduled. The featured band is We Speak in Sounds. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the gate. Kids under 12 are free. To buy tickets in advance, go to www.rockthemill.org

• Horace Pippin: The Way I See It remains on view at the Brandywine River Museum of Art through July 19. The exhibition examines the work of Pippin (1888-1946), a self-taught artist who became one of the leading figures of 20th-century art.  His vivid depictions of intimate family moments, floral still lifes, powerful scenes of war, history and religion are on view in the 65 paintings — lose to half of the artist's oeuvre — assembled from museums and private collections across the United States. The Brandywine River Museum of Art is the only venue for this first major exhibition of the artist's work in more than 20 years.

• The Chester County Art Association invites area diners to patronize the Iron Hill Brewery on June 24 while enjoying the art installations by CCAA member Jeff Schaller. Twenty percent of food purchases will go to CCAA. Go to http://www.chestercountyarts.org/uploads/3/7/0/9/37098843/6-24-15-give20_wc_(1).pdf to download and print your coupon. This GIVE20 is only valid this one day and a coupon is required.

• The United Way of Chester County has issued a community call to help local children get ready for kindergarten in the fall. From Monday, June 15, through Monday, June 29, books from a recommended list – available at http://www.education.com/magazine/article/50-books-child-read-kindergarten/ – can be dropped off at sites that include the YMCA of Greater Brandywine’s branches and the Chester County Book Company in the West Goshen shopping center. The books will be distributed to a variety of locations, including libraries and other summer program sites throughout Chester County. The goal is for families unable to purchase books to be able to read with their children over the summer. Visit United Way of Chester County’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/UWChesterCounty for more information.

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