{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The News Journal","provider_url":"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net","title":"How a long, lost camera finally found its home &ndash; The News Journal","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"HQ5DlrSYXw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/how-a-long-lost-camera-finally-found-its-home\/\">How a long, lost camera finally found its home<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/how-a-long-lost-camera-finally-found-its-home\/embed\/#?secret=HQ5DlrSYXw\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;How a long, lost camera finally found its home&#8221; &#8212; The News Journal\" data-secret=\"HQ5DlrSYXw\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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The chances of getting it back are slim and none, and you know which one left town. Heck, getting a suitcase back from \u201clost luggage\u201d is difficult enough, but walking off and forgetting your prized digital Nikon camera in the busy Cincinnati Airport is a gone-forever-moment. That\u2019s exactly what Louisvillian Lloyd Gardner did several months ago as he and his wife, Janet departed for a vacation to Ireland in April. \u201cWhen we got there I realized I didn\u2019t have it in my backpack when I got ready to take some pictures,\u201d Gardner offered. \u201cThe only thing we could figure out was we left it at home.\u201d The story picks up from here. Sometime in early May I received a phone message at my Bowling Green home. \u201cMr. West this is Mike Lewer in Kansas City calling you about a camera I found in the Cincinnati Airport. It has some pictures of an old basketball gym in Wayland, Kentucky, some pictures inside the gym, and some pictures of a basketball player named Kelly Coleman. Please call me.\u201d It was a late Sunday afternoon when I got the message, but I thought I would call the number anyway. As I expected his office was closed. I will call back Monday, I remember thinking. But, wouldn\u2019t you know, I accidentally erased his message and along with it the phone number. Oh well, I probably didn\u2019t know whose camera it was anyway, and why would he be calling me. A few days later I had the answer. This time I received an e-mail, once again telling me about the camera he had found. I called him. Mike Lewer owns an insurance company in Kansas City that does business nationally requiring him flying in and out of lots of airports. \u201cI found this camera on a seat in the Southwest terminal,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s got those pictures of the Wayland gym and some of a couple, it looks like, on vacation.\u201d I told him I would put him in contact with Jerry Fultz, the Mayor of Wayland. Jerry could check around and see if anyone was missing a camera. I called Jerry and clued him in on the unusual call I had gotten. \u201cYou\u2019re not going to believe this, but I got a strange e-mail from Mike Fields in Lexington,\u201d he said. Fields had retired sometime back as a sports columnist at the Herald-Leader in Lexington, and he messaged Fultz concerning an e-mail about a camera this guy in Kansas City found that was possibly connected to Wayland. Mike Lewer in Kansas City sent Mike Fields: \u201cMike can you give me a call at my office tomorrow, I found a camera at the airport in Covington last Friday and think it may belong to a relative of Kelly Coleman.\u201d Fields thought it might be a scam so he didn\u2019t respond, Fultz said. He did, however, contact J.R. VanHoose, a former Kentucky Mr. Basketball, from Paintsville, and a friend to Coleman. \u201cHey J.R., I got this e-mail and didn\u2019t know if it was legit or some kind of scam. Thought maybe you would know if Kelly (Coleman) had any relatives who might have lost a camera. The e-mail sounded suspicious to me.\u201d So my phone call to Jerry Fultz started to make a little more sense. I gave him the phone number in Kansas City and the two connected with Lewer agreeing to send him a few of the pictures on the camera. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d laughed Fultz. \u201cWhen I saw the pictures there was Lloyd Gardner, and I immediately knew who the camera belonged to.\u201d Fultz contacted Lewer and Gardner, telling them the case of the missing camera was solved . . . well sort of. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d Gardner said. \u201cI thought I\u2019d never see that camera again, especially after we got back home and couldn\u2019t find it there either. \u201cI know the camera was found in the Southwest terminal, but we were never there. We flew United Airlines. I\u2019ve thought about it and the only thing I can come up with is that when security took the camera out of my backpack it never was put back. Whoever came behind me could have picked it up. They could have flown Southwest and just put it down in the seat.\u201d But it still leaves to be answered how did I, Mike Fields, J.R. Vanhoose, Jerry Fultz, and Lloyd Gardner become connected with the missing camera? We had all been together in Wayland on March 21, to honor King Kelly Coleman along with some 60 former sports stars and friends. Gardner took pictures of the gym. \u201cI had a bunch of memories on that camera,\u201d said Gardner. \u201cI even had some pictures of a Greece vacation a couple of years ago.\u201d Why would someone several states away become so passionate about locating the owner of a camera he found? Lewer had gone on line and saw that I had written a book on King Kelly. He also saw that Fields had written a column about Coleman in Lexington. That\u2019s how he found us. \u201cIt became a challenge to me,\u201d Lewer laughed in a phone call with me. \u201cI just thought someone would want these pictures.\u201d Gardner agreed with me that not many people out there would make such an effort. \u201cGentlemen, thanks for helping us find Lloyd Gardner,\u201d Lewer wrote in an e-mail. \u201cWe mailed the camera and Lloyd phoned to let me know it was delivered safe and sound. Thanks again for your assistance, Mike.\u201d \u201cHe even overnighted it to me by UPS,\u201d added Gardner. Mike Lewer is the one who deserves the thanks. Thanks for proving there are still people out there who cared enough to do the right thing. Get up, get out and get going! Gary P. West can be reached at west1488@twc.com"}