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I’ll be back - 2004-01-18
In the past few weeks of having to deal with an old neck injury, there have been times when I’ve felt as if I’ve had all the grace and mobility of an oven-ready turkey.

It’s not all doom and gloom, though. There’s often humour to be found in even dreadfully painful situations. Take this morning, for example. I was brushing my teeth when I experienced a burning pain shooting down my neck. In an attempt to take the pressure off my upper spine, I immediately lay on the bathroom floor.

I was probably lying there for about five minutes, trying not to swallow a mouthful of toothpaste froth, before I concluded it was safe to move. When I tried to get up, though, I found the slightest movement caused a red-hot poker to be stuck into my spine, or so it felt at the time.
Read the full story at The Star

In the Web: How paths of teacher, police met - 2004-01-18
On Dec. 8, the superintendent of the Gresham-Barlow School District found himself on the phone with an FBI agent inquiring whether the district employed a man named John J. McPartlin.

Ken Noah, a busy superintendent with 650 teachers in his district, walked down the hall to the human resources office to find out. Yes, he found out, McPartlin was in his eighth year of teaching at Clear Creek Middle School. He was 42 years old and had once coached a state championship basketball team in the Willamette Valley community
of Monroe. His personnel file was spotless.

The agent didn't give a reason for his call. McPartlin was in class as they spoke, earning $50,821 a year teaching math. He also coached seventh-grade boys basketball and during lunch breaks in his room goofed around and played poker with boys.
Read the full story at Oregonian,