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Gov. Gregoire orders flags flown at half-staff Monday, Nov. 23

For Immediate Release: November 19, 2009

OLYMPIA � Gov. Chris Gregoire has directed that flags at all Washington state agency buildings be lowered to half-staff Monday, Nov. 23, in memory of Neal Richards, a Washington State Department of Transportation employee, who died today after being hit by a falling tree limb while working to clear a land slide on US 101 near Indian Hill east of Port Angeles.

Flags should remain at half-staff until close of business Monday, or first thing Tuesday morning, Nov. 24.