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MEMORANDUM
L A K E SIDE LIBERTY FEST 2019
The 2019 Lakeside Liberty Fest was organized and promoted by staff members Erin Greaves and
Stefanie Bork. The Festival had more vendors than ever before. More than 25 businesses and
non-profits took part in the three-day events. Staff welcomed many returning participants such as
Julie Whitescarver of Shanti, a fan favorite, hosting free family yoga on the sundial and KDZY
and STARR from Inspirational Radio streaming live from Legacy Park. Some newcomers had a
wonderful time raising money for their groups such as Roots Preschool that hosted the bounce
house and the Little League Program who claimed they did great in their fundraising efforts.
Everyone was there representing our theme “Idaho’s Outdoor Playground” our recent
trademarked slogan. We were pleased to welcome such variety this year from massages by
Tom’s Mobile Massage and product samples by Apothespa to free Zimms Hot Spring t-shirt
giveaways by the Nez Perz Tribe. We had boats and cars displayed, and even SUP rentals right
by the beach presented by Mountain Sports Exchange.
Our food representation was also excellent this year offering kettle corn, donuts, chorizo dogs,
waffles, burritos and more. We continue to strive to complement the area restaurant businesses
by providing crowd support and not competition.
Our special events such as the Volleyball Tournament and the Movie Under the Stars went off
without a hitch offered another layer of fun and activity surrounding the holiday weekend.
Volleyball, organized by Tara Woods hosted a six team tournament of four to six players and
saw a large crowd of spectators while the movie night had more than 200 viewers of all ages
attend.
McCall Chamber of Commerce hosted a tent giving out their ever-popular event guides that
highlighted 10 days of fun surrounding Independence Day. We are so grateful for their additions
in helping promote the best in McCall and hosting our amazing awing fireworks show.
TO: City Council
FROM: Erin Greaves, Communications Manager
DATE: September 2019
RE: Lakeside Liberty Fest 2019/2020
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The City of McCall Welcome Tent was hosted by members of staff and City Council and it was
met by hundreds through the day as we have away flags, tattoos, sunglasses and popcorn balls all
donated by Cheap Thrills! Cheap Thrills giveaways are 4 years running and the donation ads
such a great level of joy and interaction between us and 4th of July event Guests.
2019 WRITTEN VEND O R COMMENTS
Our experience at the 2019 event was wonderful, from the excellent communication from
Stephanie to the fun-loving crowds, we really enjoyed being a part of this event. It is a great fit
for our menu, especially the Hot Dogs, Fruit Smoothies, Espresso Bar and Basque Chorizos! We
live in McCall and appreciate this opportunity to be a part of next year's even BIGGER event!
-Txo-Txo
“We wanted to take a moment to thank all of our fireworks sponsors that made our signature
show possible. Our staff was down at the City of McCall's Lakeside Liberty Fest. There we met
people from all over the country and world who came to our beautiful corner of Idaho to
celebrate the holiday. We loved the event and thank the City for all your great efforts to make it a
success! They worked so hard.
Thanks to all who helped contribute to the fun and to our professional and emergency services
who kept us safe (McCall Parks & Rec, McCall PD, McCall Fire, and more!).”
-McCall Chamber of Commerce
Thank you so much for inviting us to this event this year. It was such a beautiful day!
I wanted to take some time to give some feedback as a vendor at it. I think the City would be best
served by having vendor booths scattered all around town. Down by the lake is pretty but there
are many businesses on our end of town too that could benefit from the city spreading out these
types of events. It would bring awareness to new businesses in town, take the focus off of the
curve area and allow us business owners to share in the wealth of business the tourists bring to
town. We would participate again if the city came up with a plan that spread out the celebration
throughout town. The same is true for winter carnival.
I'm not even sure this is possible but without driving traffic to our actual store, this event isn't a
financial success for us. We sure wished it would have been! Our building has 3 brand new
businesses in it and not one customer came to any of them this past weekend because everything
was so focused down on the other end of town. It sure would be awesome to be able to celebrate
these types of events throughout the city.
I hope you take this as constructive and not negative because I want all business owners here in
town to succeed and if we change things up, and recognize as a city there is opportunity on both
ends of this strip, we could make some really cool things happen for the city and for the tourists!
-Apothespa
LAKESIDE LIBERTY FEST 2020
Excited to report we already have more than 10 vendors signed up for Lakeside Liberty Fest
2020 and many additional verbal commitments.
Tentative schedule for 2020:
• Friday July 3rd, Road closure and Food Vendor Set-up
• Friday July 3rd, Movie Night with concessions
• Saturday July 4th, booths & vendors “Idaho’s outdoor playground” Recreating and
relaxing in McCall
• Yoga, Volleyball tournament, Jet flyover, Music, (possible Mutt Strut/ doggie red, white
& blue walk)
• Sunday July 5th, vendors and or booths
2 019 Vendor Map