The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON-Brad Barton, a certified drug prevention specialist and a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, appeared at the Liberty Theater on Thursday to delight the crowd with a number of what he called "cheap, cheesy magic tricks." This included levitating cards, turning bubbles into marbles, and performing "the torn and restored newspaper" illusion.

Barton also offered some sobering statistics about alcoholism.

According to the Utah Department of Substance Abuse Prevention, if a person's age of first alcohol use is twenty-one, there is a one in fourteen chance o...