I went for a little walk/run this morning along the levee. I started out heading toward the Kingston Rec Center, but the stench coming from the river was too noticeable, so I turned around and went the other way, toward KIRBY PARK.
About a mile or so later, as I approached the point where I would turn around (near the Edwardsville line, by the tennis courts and the baseball field), I noticed something new. It was a post with a flat, angled panel on top that looked like a solar cell or something. There was lettering down the side of the post and, my eyesight not being what it used to be, I thought it said something about energy.
But, as I got closer, I realized that the letters spelled out "emergency" and that the post was placed in an area where there have been reports of sexual assaults in the past. Good idea, I thought.
Then, I noticed the other sign on the post: Out of Order.