FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Contact: Spence Jackson, 573-751-0290


Blunt Orders Flags Flown at Half-staff in Memory of Kenneth Hoierman

JEFFERSON CITY–Gov. Matt Blunt today announced that all flags at state facilities in Missouri will be flown at half-staff on Friday, August 18 to honor the memory of Kenneth Hoierman, a Missouri Department of Transportation employee who was killed while assisting emergency responders on I-55.

Flags will remain at half-staff until dusk on the evening of Friday, August 18, 2006.


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