Lompoc Theatre Venture: Meals Truck Friday fundraiser carries on; theater gifted adjoining lot

The Lompoc Theatre Venture continues to make headway on its effort to avoid wasting the historic downtown theater, all whereas retaining members of the neighborhood engaged — and fortunately fed.

“I am going on a regular basis,” stated native resident Cher Hollingworth. “I just like the papas and chorizo taco — it is superb with a fried egg on it. I additionally just like the Tennessee scorching hen [from Sassafras] and the tri-tip sandwich that comes with garlic sauce.”

Rolling into its fourth month at host website Lompoc Theater, the city’s weekly Meals Truck Friday occasion — launched final yr by Sarah Value, proprietor/operator of Sassafras and co-owner of Large Truck Meals — has thus far helped the historic theater elevate $3,400, in response to Anne Ramsey, secretary and director of theater operations for the Lompoc Theatre Venture.

Funds raised will go towards the $7.5 million challenge purpose to revive and reopen the downtown theater to the neighborhood.

Hollingworth and her husband, Bruce, made a colourful look on Friday night with their pet Senegal parrot, Simon, to pattern new dishes and help the theater and the featured weekly distributors.

083021 Lompoc Theater Update 2.jpg — Native resident Elaine Flowers exhibits off the taco dinner bought from Cisco Child on the Meals Truck Friday occasion held weekly at Lompoc Theater’s parking zone.

Lisa André, employees

Native resident Elaine Flowers exhibits off the taco dinner bought from Cisco Child on the Meals Truck Friday occasion held weekly at Lompoc Theater’s parking zone.

Lisa André, employees

“Alex Reyes is normally right here; he does smoked issues and mac ‘n’ cheese,” Hollingworth stated, with Simon perched on her shoulder. “And The Birria Boyz’s line goes across the block.”

Isaac Martinez, proprietor of Two Brothers Shaved Ice, who drives from Arroyo Grande every week to affix Lompoc’s Friday occasion, took a nacho order from a buyer.

“It is busy generally,” he stated, standing behind 4 massive containers of fruit-infused Mexican drinks — horchata, watermelon juice, hibiscus and strawberry.

Martinez stated along with some savory treats for buy, his meals truck every week presents contemporary juices based mostly on what’s in season, aside from watermelon, which won’t be provided throughout the winter months.

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Native residents Elaine and Vince Flowers, who’ve frequented Santa Maria’s weekly meals truck occasion, stated Friday was their first time attending Lompoc’s.

“This one is nearer,” she stated. “We won’t go each Friday [to Santa Maria], there’s lots of people at that one.”

Whereas the Flowers waited for his or her orders at separate meals vans, Elaine Flowers defined that afterward they’d seize pizza at one other meals truck for his or her youngest daughter, who was ready for dinner at house.

“They take Venmo,” she stated.

083021 Lompoc Theater Update 3.JPG — Anne Ramsey, left, secretary and director of theater operations for the Lompoc Theatre Venture, and Barbara Satterfield, president, stand within the adjoining lot just lately donated to the nonprofit by Lorraine Cox.

Photograph courtesy of Lompoc Theatre Venture

Anne Ramsey, left, secretary and director of theater operations for the Lompoc Theatre Venture, and Barbara Satterfield, president, stand within the adjoining lot just lately donated to the nonprofit by Lorraine Cox.

Photograph courtesy of Lompoc Theatre Venture

Flowers ordered a potato taco and a shrimp taco from Cisco Child, and her husband ordered the spicy hen meal from Sassafras.

“It appears good,” Flowers stated. “And I haven’t got to cook dinner or clear up.”

Barbara Satterfield, Lompoc Theatre Venture president, who attends every week armed with info on the theater challenge to share with the general public, stated she hopes the occasion will proceed past the anticipated wrap-up date on Oct. 22.

Lompoc Food Truck Fridays relocating to old theater parking lot on Friday

“This can be a fairly good group tonight,” she stated. “There’s all the time a special number of folks that present every week.”

Though she foresees some problem to internet hosting Meals Truck Friday throughout the darker winter months, given the dearth of lighting on the theater’s parking zone, Satterfield envisions a combining of neighborhood forces.

“With the donation of the lot, and as soon as it is cleaned up, we had been hoping to maneuver the farmers market there and have the Meals Truck Fridays right here,” she stated. “It might be a protracted day of actions.”

083021 Lompoc Theater Update 4.jpg — Cher and Bruce Hollingworth and their Senegal parrot, Simon, swing by the weekly Meals Truck Friday occasion held on the Lompoc Theater parking zone.

Lisa André, employees

Cher and Bruce Hollingworth and their Senegal parrot, Simon, swing by the weekly Meals Truck Friday occasion held on the Lompoc Theater parking zone.

Lisa André, employees

The Lompoc Theatre Venture just lately introduced its acquisition of a small .32-acre lot that abuts the theater property — on the northside, alongside Walnut Avenue. The property was gifted by longtime resident Lorraine Cox, in reminiscence of her late husband, who was a former Superior Courtroom decide and neighborhood activist.

The lot will increase the theater’s property line and can in the end lend itself to further area for patron parking as soon as the theater is rebuilt, Satterfield stated.

“This theater, for me, is for the children,” she stated. “I would like the children to have a spot to carry out and have a spot that they’ll expertise being on the stage.”