Get a kick out of the Museum of Ventura County’s “Mules At the Mill’ fundraiser and annual Katherine Hoffman Haley Award Gala, to be held Saturday, July 7 at the museum’s Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula. Proceeds support museum exhibits, education, and family programs.

This year’s dinner and gala honors Dorcas Hardison Kimball Thille for her dedication to the museum and Ventura County. With a theme suited to the Agriculture Museum’s horses & mules summer exhibit, the 4:00-8:00 p.m. festivities include a Buy it Now silent auction and a drawing for glass artist Larissa Strauss’ mosaic landscape of Ventura County agriculture. Gala tickets are $125 per person; reservation deadline is June 25. For more information contact Esthefany Polanco at 805 653-0323 x 304, epolanco@ venturamuseum.org, or go to www.venturamuseum.org.