TEMECULA (CNS) - The city of Temecula tonight will greet 2020 with a salute to fruit, lowering a batch of grapes from the city's clock tower to mark the final moments of the current year to welcome the New Year.
The annual "grape drop'' celebration will begin at 6 p.m. in Town Square Park, which has undergone a temporary conversion to a Times Square-themed venue for celebrations on the last night of 2019.
There will be two grape drops — the first coinciding with the traditional extravaganza in New York City, and the second when the midnight hour approaches on the West Coast.
A large cluster of illuminated grapes will be gradually reeled down 65 feet from the third story of the Civic Center clock tower, marking the seconds before midnight.
The two countdown celebrations are open to th
