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June 1998: Toppled toilets as school year ends
COREY MCMAKEN | The Journal Gazette
Southwest Allen County Schools faced a problem in the last week of the 1997-98 school year: A third water main had broken in Aboite Township on June 1 and there wasn t enough water pressure to flush the toilets.
School was delayed the morning of June 2 while Superintendent Dave Hales put a plan into motion – getting portable toilets installed outside the schools. About 50 toilets arrived during the day.
But on the morning of June 3, school was delayed again. Some Homestead High School students had pushed over the portable toilets behind the school and across the street at Woodside Middle School.