GOVERNOR LINGLE ORDERS STATE FLAGS TO FLY AT HALF-STAFF IN HONOR OF FORMER STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS

For Immediate Release:  March 19, 2007

HONOLULU – Governor Linda Lingle has ordered state flags at state and county buildings to be flown at half-staff in honor of two former state elected officials who recently passed away. 

State flags shall be flown at half-staff on Tuesday, March 20 in honor of former Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Thomas K. Kaulukukui, Sr., who died on March 9.  Kaulukukui served on the OHA board from 1980-1994.

On Thursday, March 29, state flags shall be flown at half-staff in honor of former Representative Peter Aduja, who died on Feb. 19.  Aduja, a native of Ilocos Sur Province in the Philippines, became the first Filipino in Hawai‘i to be elected to the Territorial House of Representatives, where he represented Hilo as a Republican for one two-year term.

The flag shall be flown from sunup to sundown on the respective day of interment for Kaulukukui and Aduja.

The Governor will also order state flags to fly at half-staff in honor of OHA Trustee Linda Dela Cruz, who died on March 15, once funeral arrangements are announced by family members.

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For more information, contact:

Lenny Klompus
Senior Advisor – Communications
Phone:  (808) 586-7708

Russell Pang
Chief of Media Relations
Phone: (808) 586-0043

Leighton Siu
Chief of Protocol
Phone: (808) 586-0034