The MLNA Ice Cream Social is our biggest social event of the year. The 2022 event drew about 350 people and enabled them to:
- Meet their neighbors, both long-time and newcomers.
- Visit the ice cream table for a free individually wrapped ice cream treats.
- Buy a Monta Loma tee shirt and logo items.
- 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 school at the PTA table, and buy some spirit wear.
- Chat with members of Friends of Mountain View Parks, an organization advocating for more parks and open space.
- Visit the plant-exchange table.
- Enjoy some pink cotton candy.
- Ask questions about trees at the Canopy table.
- Learn what the Mountain View Educational Foundation (MVEF) does for our schools.
- Listen to neighborhood band On the Edge.
- Watch robot horses pull a carriage on the paved walkway.
- Contribute some local lore or artifacts to the Monta Loma History display.
- Meet Ellen Wheeler and Laura Ramirez Berman of the MVWSD Board of Trustees; City Council members Ellen Kamei, Lisa Matichak, Pat Showalter, and Mayor Lucas Ramirez; and City Manager Kimbra McCarthy.