Hugs, stories and messages of healing will be offered at the Community Candlelight Tribute: ‘Remembering Those We’ve Loved and Lost’ event in front of Temecula City Hall Saturday, Nov. 30. Courtesy photo
“What do you give a family who is facing the holidays without their loved one?” was the question that Linda Mejia asked herself when she was considering how to give aid to a family that had just lost a family member during her time as a Murrieta code enforcement officer.Having lost her 16-year-old son Adam to cancer she seemed to be the person to ask at the time.At the time, she as frustrated that she couldn’t attend the vigils for Samantha Runyon, a young woman from Stanton, who was killed and left by the side of the road near Route 74, the Ortega Highway, in 2002.“The holidays were approaching and I tried to think of what we could possibly do to help the family,” Mejia said. “The idea of the candlelight vigil seemed to be an answer to this question.”It was t
