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This weekend is the convergence of several holidays where you’ll find some saying, “Make Love, Not War,” and others declaring: “Let the battle begin.” That’s what happens when Valentine’s Day meets Presidents’ Day Weekend.

• Pictured is Calico Ghost Town’s annual President’s Day Weekend Civil War Re-enactment. The public is invited to this special event taking place Feb. 14-16, 2015.
• Other rowdy entertainment that shoots an arrow in Cupid’s heart includes Kernville’s Whiskey Flat Days where Gunfights, Cowboy Cook’n and Whiskey Flats Saloon do a darned good job of showing people what the old days were like. Should there be a need, the Justice of the Peace will be on hand to officiate shotgun weddings.
• The ScotsFestival at Queen Mary Feb. 14 & 15 starts with Rock Yer Kilt concert on Friday the 13th. Scots are about love and war. A Scottish person in our household explained: “The Scots fight among themselves but when there’s a common enemy they ban together and become fierce warriors!”
• Brazilians are all about love at San Diego’s Brazilian Mardi Gras Ball on Feb. 14.
• Indio Date Festival & Riverside County Fair Feb. 13 -22 includes war & peace. When newly-crowned Queen Scheherazade (Carla Cabrera,)  steps into the spotlight and the Arabian Nights musical pageant begins, it’s a shining moment not to be eclipsed by the roar of WGAS Motorsports Monster Trucks & Freestyle Moto X, a showdown in the Grandstand arena on Feb. 16.