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Associated Press
The director of the W.F. West High School band in Chehalis, Geoff Gilbert, was killed in a traffic accident.
The school district said Gilbert also was a member of the Yakima Symphony and Brass Ensemble and Northwest Wind Symphony as well as a substitute with the Olympia Jazz Senators.
The 42-year-old Napavine man was headed home early Tuesday from a Jazz Senators performance in Olympia when his motorcycle rear-ended a pickup in foggy conditions on Interstate 5.
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