Flag raising ceremony is Tuesday at courthouse

In May, Sen. Mike Crapo presented Gold Star mother Theresa Hart with an American flag that had flown above the U.S. Capitol.

On Tuesday at noon that flag will be raised in the RD Rankin Veterans Memorial Plaza at the Kootenai County Courthouse on Garden Avenue and Government Way, where it will fly through the month of July. It will fly in honor of Independence Day and in memory of Nick Newby and Nate Beyers, who were killed in action on July 7, 2011.

The public is invited to attend the brief flag raising ceremony. Information: Kerri Rankin Thoreson, curator, 651-7343.