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Mulch of any type important to all plants

Question: I heard it is best to move rock away from my shrubs and replace it with mulch. What is your recommendation?

Old course gets new life — and a new name

Do courses have their own muscle memory, or can an old dog learn new tricks at the beefed-up and beautified Stallion Mountain Golf Club?

Things to do in Paradise/Downtown

Downtown event highlights include Rainbow Company Youth Theatre’s production of “Uncovering Nevada’s Past,” UNLV Symphony Orchestra’s “Made in the USA” and RagTag Entertainment’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Assassins.”

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VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT TO ENSURE VISITORS’ SAFETY ON MOUNT CHARLESTON IN WINTER

Student patrol fosters safety, education in conflict resolution

Kids at Wengert Elementary School are taking the law into their own hands by patrolling the school’s playground as anti-bullying safety officers who issue citations for name-calling and fighting.

Law students offer free tax help to those in need

Students in the Boyd Financial Law Society at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are offering free tax preparation assistance for people with low to moderate incomes through the IRS-sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program at the Cambridge and Whitney recreation centers.

Family heals through creativity

Art often can bring together people from throughout the world, especially those concentrated in one community.

Charity boosts capacity to serve thousands more clients

A move down the street has done more for Lutheran Social Services of Nevada than just transfer its operations to a different building. It has provided an opportunity for the nonprofit group to serve 7,000 more clients, expand programs and triple the size of its food pantry.

Book briefs

Upcoming literary events include a free writers workshop, a Black History Month celebration featuring local authors and a Las Vegas Writers Group meeting featuring mystery author Morgan St. James.

Literary Las Vegas: Dan Lier & Mike Lindstrom

Henderson author Dan Lier has traveled the world as a business consultant, keynote speaker and success coach working alongside motivational gurus such as Tony Robbins. Along the way he found that people who built business empires weren’t always successful in love.

Letters to the editor

You can’t lump all old people into one bag (“Seniors’ competency behind the wheel a judgment call,” View, Jan. 17). Just because one old person or even a hundred old people throughout the country causes an accident doesn’t mean all old people are unsafe drivers. What needs to be done is the Department of Transportation needs to put out statistics of who causes the most accidents. Is it old folks? Is it teenagers? Is it young adults?