• The old song said it’s “Summer in the City,” but now it’s time for chocolate in the borough. The annual Chocolate Lovers Festival, a fundraiser for the United Way of Southern Chester County, is this Sunday, Feb. 21 at Kennett High School. Hundreds of chocolate treats including cakes, brownies, candies, cookies and cupcakes will be available for tasting. Bring family and friends and sample as many chocolate items as you wish. General admission starts at 1 p.m. and costs $10 per person, which includes six tastings (special deal of $30 for a family of four). General admission parking is $5.
• Ever wonder how Chadds Ford got its name or who “Hank” is from Hank’s Place? Chadds Ford’s history, which dates back to the 1600s — is the topic for the first of this year’s Spring Lecture Series at the Chadds Ford Historical Society (CFHS), Tuesday, Feb. 23. This lecture — Chadds Ford Then and Now — reveals the stories behind the properties, what they looked like “then” and “now,” discovered by CFHS board member Phyllis Recca as she spent the summer of 2015 researching over 40 sites using historic images from the CFHS and documenting how they look today. Free for CFHS member, the cost is $10 for nonmembers.
• Registration for Spring 2016 Youth Sports leagues and clinics at the YMCA of Greater Brandywine is underway and runs until March 27. Sports offerings include basketball, soccer, cheerleading, floor hockey, tennis, volleyball, T-ball, coach pitch baseball and flag football for kids ages 3 to 18 years. Membership is not required to join these leagues and clinics. The season runs from April 18 to June 18. Financial assistance is available. For more information visit your local YMCA of Greater Brandywine branch or YMCA Youth Sports.
• The final draft of a proposed Home Rule Charter for Concord Township is now available for public review. A copy can be found on the township’s website at www.twp.concord.pa.us/home-rule-info Members of the Government Study Commission will hold four public educational meetings to explain the proposal and answer questions at Rachel Kohl Library on April 3 and 13 at 10 a.m. and April 14 and 18 at 7 p.m.
• If you enjoy being outdoors and want to learn more about gardening with native plants, the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art wants you. Volunteer gardeners are being sought to help tend to the gardens around the museum. Gardeners work nearly year round in the various aspects of tending the gardens. Previous gardening experience is helpful but not required; on the job training provided. To learn more, contact Mark Gormel, horticultural coordinator, at mgormel@brandywine.org or 610-388-8327.
• The Kennett Area Senior Center sponsors an afternoon “Sunday Dinner with Friends” on Sunday, February 28 from 1 – 3 p.m. Come enjoy a delicious home-cooked meal and live entertainment provided by The Dixie Demons! The cost is $10 per person. Everyone is welcome, regardless of age. Please contact the senior center at 610-444-4819 a week in advance for reservations.
• Uptown! Entertainment Alliance, bringing a theater to West Chester, recently announced the promotion of Angela Scully to executive director. Scully, a self-taught artist, joined Uptown! in 2013 as development director and quickly rose to accept more and more responsibility with the organization. She has been instrumental in partnering with local artists and securing collaborations with The Resident Theatre Company, Sara Michaels, Michael Windish and Yajaira Paredes Productions.
• Orchids have always held a place of distinction at Longwood Gardens, especially during its annual Orchid Extravaganza. This exhibition, which runs through March 27 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., celebrates the beauty and variety of orchids with an artful display that includes a towering 12-foot-tall archway, a spectacular cascading orchid curtain, and hundreds of vibrant barerooted Vanda orchids hanging from the Silver Garden ceiling. For more information, visit http://longwoodgardens.org.
• The Phoenixville Community Health Foundation and Chester County’s Decade to Doorways Community Partnership are teaming up to host a free movie screening of “Time Out of Mind.” The acclaimed film, which stars Richard Gere as a homeless man in New York City, will be shown at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville on March 9 at 7:05 pm. The public is invited to view the film and better understand homelessness in Chester County, as well as what is being done to end it. To reserve your free ticket, click here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/time-out-of-mind-free-movie-screening-tickets-21290408184.
• Christiana Care Health System’s Center for Heart & Vascular Health is offering a support group for people who have received or plan to receive implantable cardioverter defibrillators. The free sessions are held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the John H. Ammon Medical Education Center at Christiana Hospital, 4755 Ogletown-Stanton Rd., Newark, Del. The meeting includes a topic-based presentation and an opportunity for questions. Family members are welcome to attend. To register, call 800-693-CARE (2273). The group’s next meeting is Tuesday, March 8.
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