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Officials at Lake Roosevelt Elementary are trying to figure out why one of the first-grade classrooms picks up a sewer smell off and on.

It happens in Kim Campbell’s first-grade room, and on occasion drives her and her 18 students across the hall into another classroom.

Plumbers and other tradesmen are working to find the problem, crawling around checking pipe joints. Theories abound. None have proved positive.

The smell doesn’t occur every day, nor at the same time each day that it happens.

Usually, it doesn’t last over 20 minutes to half an hour.

School board members learned of the problem Monday night when Principal Lisa Lakin added it to her elementary section report.