January 1 – February 28, 2014, Volume 7 – Issue 1

8 Breaking News - Chocolate can be good for you12 Mesquite Balloon Festival14 Exciting Changes at Eureka Casino18 Making Mesquite a Bicycle Friendly Community20 Smile this New Year it could mean a longer life22 Probiotics Key to Super Health?25 Golf for Kids Wrap Up26 Choices28 Positive Intrinsic Motivation31 Financial Fitness34 Mud Matters when it’s made in Mesquite36 Up, Up and Away37 Mesa View welcomes new doctor40 Mesquite Off-Road Weekend 201445 Seeking Contestants for 2014 Ms. Senior Mesquite46 Parenting? There’s an App for that49 Salvation Army Christmas pictorial52 Shop With A Cop pictorial 59 Local Ribbon Cuttings

In This Issue

In Every Issue

3 Editor’s Letter

6 Why I Love Mesquite

7 View from the Mayor

10 View on Healthy Lifestyle

17 View from the Chamber

19 Tennis TNT

24 View on Golf

27 View on Youth

30 View on Business

33 View on Charity

38 View on Safety

42 View on Travel

FEATURE ARTICLES50 Personal Anthropology42 Travel Resolutions for the New Year16 Bringing Mesquite’s Past into the Future

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