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Welcome To Canada, Now Strip

When we last visited former Lakeland School District instructor Meghan Ridley, she was cutting her teeth as a writer for Dope Magazine in Seattle. A free spirit, Meghan resigned her teaching position after being a local union leader and teacher of the year, partly in protest to education reforms pushed by Idaho Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna. Meghan provides this update for Huckleberries Online: "Since I last talked with you, I was promoted to assistant editor and have had some interesting experiences to say the least My latest piece is entitled 'Crossing the Border, Crossing the Line' ... It is a rather graphic first-hand account of a strip search I was put through when traveling (to Canada) earlier this summer." Meghan means it when she said graphic. So if you proceed to read her account, you've been forewarned. Click here for "Crossing the Border, Crossing the Line." (Coeur d'Alene Press file photo of Meghan Ridley during days as a Lakeland School District teacher)

Question: Did the Canadian border patrol go too far?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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