Dec. 12-13 MURRIETA Candy Cane Lane Through Dec. 14 TEMECULA Letters to Santa

The city of Murrieta is transforming Town Square

Park’s loop road into Candy Cane Lane for a free holiday lights drive-thru experience. Drive through the loop between 5:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Dec. 12 and 13 to see the holiday lights. Cars must enter the park on the Juniper Street side.

Dec. 14 TEMECULA Blood drive

The Promenade Temecula will host a mobile blood drive in partnership with the San Diego

Blood Bank from 2 to 7 p.m. Dec. 14. Donors must be 17 or older, weigh at least 114 pounds, and be in good health. The blood drive will take place in the Plaza area in front of Edwards

Theatre. Appointments are required. Call (800) 469-7322 or visit sandiegobloodbank.org.

Need to get a letter to Santa? Mail your child’s letter (or yours) to the City of Temecula, Attn:

Santa’s Workshop, 41000 Main St., Temecula,

CA 92590, through Dec. 14. If it arrives early enough, Santa might send a letter back.

Dec. 15 TEMECULA TEDxTemecula Watch Party

TEDxTemecula has moved its ninth annual speaker series online with a series of Watch

Parties highlighting the theme “Against the

Grain.” Speakers were chosen from hundreds of applicants. Upcoming events are:

Dec. 15:

Jan. 5:

Jan. 12:

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, CEO of

Valens Global. Gartenstein-Ross has worked on national-security issues related to violence and terrorism for more than 20 years.

Dan Pettus, retired professional photographer. Pettus weathered a market disruption in his own business and now sees this kind of major change as our new norm.

Dr. Ernst von Schwarz, an internist, cardiologist, and heart transplant cardiologist.

Schwarz is leading an investigation for stemcell-based clinical trial studies.

To register for a Watch Party, visit https:// tinyurl.com/tedxtemecula2020. For more information about the series, visit https:// tinyurl.com/temeculatedx.

For information, call (951) 304-7275, or visit https://tinyurl.com/murrieta-fooddrive.