Twenty-eight new laws will take effect in Florida on Thursday. Among the laws will be: new rules for human smuggling, cracking down on the sale of stolen gold jewelry and new rules for children wearing helmets while horseback riding. One new law bears the name of a special South Florida basketball player, the Alonzo Mourning Access to Care Act.

MENDHAM – Greg Barna has ridden horseback through Spanish olive groves, he has glided on snowmobiles along snowcapped mountains in Iceland, followed sled dogs in Quebec and zipped along on a zip line in a volcano in Maui.

Youngsters 5 to 17 who have never experienced riding a horse are being given an opportunity to saddle up. The Kiwanis Club of Calistoga is inviting young Calistogans to apply for three horseback-riding lessons at Diamond Mountain Stables in Calistoga — and the Kiwanis Club will pick up the tab.