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Article: BURST PIPE FORCES SCHOOL STAFF TO IMPROVISE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2004
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[A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.]Rollins
School teacher Laura Cawthron got a phone call one weekend last month
with the news that her classroom was one of four that had been
flooded by a burst pipe.
While she was thankful the incident had happened over the weekend,
her thoughts immediately turned to the fate of her most valuable
possession housed in that classroom.
"The first thing I thought was, `Not my reading books. Not my
shelves full of books that I collected for the past eight years,' "
said Cawthron, who teaches first and second grades.
Many of her books, as well as those of her students, were ruined.
The ceiling, floor, and walls of her classroom were heavily ...