The festivities for Kayla Harrison were great! Richard and I stood in front of the Middletown Arts Center and watched the parade go by, then walked over to a shady spot on the plaza to wait for its arrival and the ceremony. There were too many politicians, many of whom had no idea how to speak into a microphone. It was hard to hear a lot of them. Kayla was presented with many gifts, including an AK Steel hardhat, swag from Miami University and Cincinnati State, a key to the city, etc. The Middletown Community Foundation has established a scholarship in her name with a corpus of $10,000. The big surprise of the evening was the appearance of Middletown's only other Olympic champion, basketball player Jerry Lucas, who presented Kayla a huge bouquet of red, white, and blue flowers.