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For parents who are looking for a low-cost activity in which they can involve their entire family, now’s the time. Friday through Feb. 15 is the Great Backyard Bird Count, sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.

Vertical mulching will give your trees a boost

If you have trees that are not growing much, vertical mulching will give them a jump start. It opens up our poor soils to get air and water to the roots, it drains away salts and it gets rid of toxic gases.

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Here are a few things in news, entertainment and pop culture that we’ve been talking about lately.

Virgin Valley Heritage Museum offers insight into Mesquite’s past

Proud of its history, the Nevada town of Mesquite invites visitors to get acquainted with the border town’s past, starting with a visit to its diminutive museum at 35 Mesquite Blvd. Housed in a flat-roofed rock building erected to serve as a library during 1939-41, the Virgin Valley Heritage Museum contains remnants of its past dating back to original settlement by Mormon colonists in the early 1880s. The single-storied museum, later turned into a hospital, was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

How clean is Las Vegas’ water?

The Las Vegas Valley Water District said it conducted 320,000 analyses on more than 55,000 water samples from Lake Mead and other storage reservoirs.