• Poseidon Ponds and Gardens is celebrating its grand opening with an open house this Saturday, March 26, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at its location at 1301 Brinton’s Bridge Road — next to The Gables. Come see what is going on for the spring of 2016 and sign-up for garden workshops throughout the season. We will also have all your garden supplies available for purchase, seed starting, terrarium supplies, gift baskets and spring pansies and Easter flowers. Call for more information: 267-886-7662.
• The Kennett Area Senior Center’s Walnut Street Café Community Breakfast will be offered on Monday, April 4, from 7 to 9 a.m., with a meal that scrambled eggs, home fries, sausage, bacon, sausage gravy and biscuits, and omelets made to order. All breakfasts include juice, fruit, coffee, tea and milk. The price is $5.75 for members and $6.75 for non-members.
• The Penn State Chester County Master Gardeners Hotline will be open starting April 4 for the 2016 gardening season. You can call the Penn State Extension Office at 610-696-3500 with your garden-related questions weekdays from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. Chester County Master Gardeners answer questions on a variety of topics including growing vegetables, fruits, ornamentals, and native plants; controlling invasives; turf grass; plant identification; pruning; and insect and disease problems. The latest research-based advice encourages the use of integrated pest management and environmentally sound practices promoting the health of our ecosystem. More information about Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Chester County may be found at http://extension.psu.edu/plants/master-gardener/counties/chester.
• The Grand in Wilmington presents a family-friendly afternoon of illuminated illusions with LUMA: Art in Darkness on Sunday, April 10, at 3 p.m. in Copeland Hall. Tickets, which are on sale now, are $23 for children and $27 for adults and may be purchased by calling The Grand’s Box Office at 302.652.5577 or online at www.TheGrandWilmington.org. LUMA Theater is a light spectacle that captures the audiences’ imaginations by using the dark as the canvas and light as the brush. LUMA creates colorful illusions by combining rhythmic gymnastics, dance, magic, puppetry, and physics with well-coordinated motion.
• Delaware County Council welcomed nine student artists who were winners in the annual “Kick Butts Day Bookmark Contest” organized by the Delaware County Tobacco-Free Coalition. While varying in color and characters, all the bookmarks had one message: Don’t use tobacco. “While we have made progress in reducing tobacco use, nearly one in five Americans still smokes. And if the current trend in tobacco use continues, 9,200 Pennsylvania youth will become daily tobacco users,” said Councilman John McBlain. During Kick Butts Day, students are encouraged to stay tobacco-free and to educate one another on the risks of all tobacco use. Students in kindergarten to grade 8 throughout the county were invited to create original bookmarks that encourage a tobacco-free lifestyle for young people. Student winners were Malysia Grandy, Trinity Okutoro, Alexia Surplus, Jacob Shapiro, Lana Sok, Sakhmet Anyika, Debbie Ho, Marie Selena Jimenez and Aisha Omer.
• Spring has arrived, and so has a special crop of Critters at the Brandywine River Museum of Art. Critters are whimsical and distinctive ornaments and decorations, crafted individually by hand using natural materials. Available through April 25, critters make great gifts for showers, housewarmings, and other special spring occasions. The cost ranges from $10 to $25. They are available in the Museum Shop, which is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Proceeds from the sale of critters benefit the Volunteers’ Art Purchase Fund, and Art Education and Programming.
• Natalie and Audrey Gartner, aged 15 and 12, from Chadds Ford, have been selected to dance with the Diamond Elite Performance Company at the Summer Stages Program in Barcelona, Spain this summer. Natalie and Audrey have been dancing competitively for more than 10 years. They attend a cyber charter school, and both have been awarded high honors in their studies, despite rehearsing from 11 to 15 hours a week. Last year, they were accepted to represent their state in a national dance convention, known as Dance Excellence, in Los Angeles, Calif.
• Mt. Cuba Center invites the public to enjoy a spectacular display of spring wildflowers at the Annual Wildflower Celebration at the botanic garden from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 24. This free event will be held rain or shine and is an opportunity to stroll through the famed gardens and view a colorful array of native spring wildflowers, enjoy live music, gardening demonstrations, family programming, and more. A variety of food selections will be available for purchase and the first 1,000 families will receive a free native coreopsis plant. During the Annual Wildflower Celebration and throughout the spring wildflower season, visitors can see an unrivaled display of trilliums and native orchids, which attract early spring pollinators. Mt. Cuba Center features diverse naturalistic gardens, including ponds, a meadow, and woodland areas, as well as formal gardens and a research trial garden. Free parking for this event is at the Red Clay Reservation, 1003 Old Wilmington Road, just east of Brackenville Road. Shuttle buses and a walking path provide access to the garden from the parking area. Due to the rolling terrain and mulched paths at Mt. Cuba Center, the use of wheelchairs is limited. Pets are not permitted.
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