Thousands of happy children played in the snow and had the opportunity to greet Santa Claus and Mrs.Claus during their pre-Christmas visits at the annual Menifee Christmas Tree Lighting and Parade at the Menifee campus of Mount San Jacinto College, on Saturday, Dec. 7.
Santa carefully looked out to the crowd of children, almost as if he knew which children had been good or bad from the Menifee City Stage set up near the MSJC Christmas tree that soon was to be lit by Santa Claus himself.
Performers before and after Santa’s special appearance entertained the growing crowd that exceeded all prior Christmas tree-lighting events on campus. Even with cars lining both sides of La Piedra Road from Antelope Road to Wheatfield Park, the campus parking lots were nearly filled with parking at a pr
