City of Goleta Booth Enjoys Non-Stop Visitors at the Goleta Lemon Festival

What a weekend! The City of Goleta booth was bumping all weekend long with Goleta Lemon Festival participants. We were so thrilled to see all of the friendly faces who stopped by to spin the wheel for a chance to win a prize! Some walked away with City of Goleta 20-year merchandise and others ended up doing jumping jacks or squats instead! Whatever the case, there was plenty of fun to be had. Congrats to Junia Work and to Gianna Lucchesi for winning the Guess the Number of Lemon Drops in the Jar contest! In case you were wondering there were 490 the first day, 486 the second day!

This well-attended event was such a great opportunity for us to connect with so many wonderful people. Thanks to everyone who signed up to get our City notifications, joined the Beautify Goleta volunteer team, or those who took time out take our Creek and Watershed survey. Also, the Goleta Valley Library printed out over one hundred new library cards to those who signed up at the event! We also appreciated the great opportunity to talk to community members about our upcoming District Election and city workshops.

While there were so many fun moments, one of the best parts as always was watching the pie-eating contests. Thanks to our judges for helping to pick the winners, including from the City, Mayor Paula Perotte and Councilmembers James Kyriaco and Roger Aceves.

Our new City Manager Robert Nisbet enjoyed being at the City booth and meeting with as many community members as possible. He was so impressed with his first Lemon Fest!

Thanks also to our Goleta Police Department for being at the popular Safety Streets section of the Lemon Festival and giving so many kiddos the chance to sit on one of your patrol cars or motorcycles.

Finally, we want to congratulate and thank the South Coast Chamber of Commerce for putting on this awesome event and to everyone who sponsored to make it happen and participated. We are so lucky to have the Goleta Lemon Festival back and better than ever! Can’t wait till next year to do it all over again.