Outgoing City Commissioner David Larsen received a pleasant surprise as he arrived for his last meeting on Monday.
The city staff organized a reception for the highly decorated Vietnam War era Navy veteran in the lobby of the Parsons Municipal Building to honor him with the renaming of a city street.
Shortly after the short reception, the city commission renamed Conference Boulevard as Larsen Boulevard. The street runs east and west just south of the newly built Parsons Conference Center.
(Read more: Parsons Sun)