By Daniel Pursglove
We almost take it as a given that we can read.  
Most adults do read and enjoy it or at least use the skill to gain useful information.  Unfortunately, there are those with the skill but don’t have glasses:  what a shame.  
The Lions Club here in our community as part of the Lions International try to help that situation.  The local Lions try to help out those who need glasses but can’t afford them.  
The Lions are sponsoring   pancake supper at Connie’s Kitchen at 4 p.m. Oct. 8.  Supper is only five dollars and tickets are available from Spencer at the Seymour Branch library.  
Buy a ticket and help somebody to get reading again.  
Take your wife and kids, your friends and neighbors would also enjoy them.  Take your aunts, uncles and cousins; you got them by the dozens get a group together.  
Glasses are a good thing too.  With them you might not run that red light or stop sign.  Here in Seymour with all of our traffic signals we don’t have too many red light runners.  However we do have quite a few who ignore stop signs and double yellow lines:  no passing zones.
 Is it that we don’t see them or that we just ignore them unless we see a sheriff’s patrol nearby?  In Tennessee unmarked traffic control vehicles don’t have to be marked, be careful, very careful, the life you save might be your own.      
While traffic is on my mind I wonder why the delay in replacing the failing lock at Chickamauga Dam is on hold.  Is it because Obama and the Congress are vexed with Tennessee?  For every barge that transverses the lock it takes more than sixty eighteen wheelers off the highways.  
It seems that there should be some mandated commitment to keeping the Tennessee River open to shipping.
We need to keep on praying, pray for all but pray for using our brains.  That might be a tougher mission than prayers for wealth.

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