The MLNA Ice Cream Social is our biggest social event of the year. Scroll down for photos.
In August 2023, the event drew about 450 people and enabled them to:
- Meet their neighbors, both long-time and newcomers.
- Visit the Newcomer Welcome Team’s table for information for new residents (and their neighbors).
- Visit the ice cream table for a free individually wrapped ice cream treats.
- Meet Mountain View Whisman School District Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph and Chief Business Officer Rebecca Westover, and examine the exhibit about the school-fence options.
- Meet members of the MVWSD Board of Trustees and the Mountain View City Council.
- Ask Gizmo Gary for a balloon creation.
- Learn more about the city’s Zero Waste and Food Scraps & Recycling programs.
- Visit our Community Emergency Response Team’s (CERT) display and sign up.
- Volunteer to help our Monta Loma Elementary School at the PTA table, and buy some spirit wear.
- Volunteer to help Crittenden Middle School at its PTA table.
- Pick up copies of City information on the Parks Strategic Plan, Safe Routes to School, and Sustainability Initiatives and Programs
- Visit the plant-exchange table.
- Enjoy some pink cotton candy.
- Learn about the Mountain View Historical Association.
- Ask questions about trees at the Canopy table.
- Learn about the city’s new Multicultural Engagement Program that offers information in Spanish, Chinese, and Russian.
- Discuss whether the 9-month Leadership Mountain View program that begins each September might be right for them.
- See Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly chrysalises, and learn about their and Monarch butterflies‘ host plants.
- Visit the Living Classroom display.
- Learn about CHAC, the Community Health Awareness Council.
- Visit with a Fire Department crew, who brought an engine and created a rainbow with the hose, and the Police Department, which sent an officer and also a K-9 team with a “very friendly” dog.
- Watch robot horses pull a carriage on the paved walkway.
- Contribute some local lore or artifacts to the Monta Loma History display.
- Learn about Girl Scouts.
- Taste MLN homegrown organic apples and vote for their favorite variety.
- Pick up free COVID test kits brought by the Community Action Team (CAT).