CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Santa Claus is coming to town this week.

Santa will be visiting Clearlake on Friday, Dec. 18, via a “Santa drive-around,” spearheaded by the Rotary Club of Clear Lake.

He’ll be riding on a Lake County Fire Protection District Fire engine and will be joined by the Clearlake Police Department, a Konocti Unified School District decorated school bus with principals and teachers, and a fire department ambulance as part of his convoy.

They will start out from near Highway 53 on Lakeshore Drive. at 3 p.m., and continue down Lakeshore Drive to Olympic Drive where they’ll make a right and continue down Olympic to the Fire Department.

Community members are invited to join in welcoming Santa to the city.