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Port Angeles City Council candidates debate fluoridation, opioids, trees
PORT ANGELES — Three candidates for a Port Angeles City Council Position 2 seat staked out positions on water fluoridation, opioid use and Lincoln Park trees Tuesday at an Aug. 1 primary election forum. One-term incumbent Lee Whetham, a plumber, and challengers Jacob Oppelt and Mike French — two downtown businessmen who have not run […]
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Port Orchard might ditch second-class city status; Port Angeles considers adopting it
PORT ANGELES — Port Orchard residents are close to taking away their city as an example held up by Port Angeles fluoridation opponents who want to change Port Angeles from a municipal-code city to a second-class city and re-elect an entirely new City Council early next year. The Port Orchard City Council is heading in […]
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Port Angeles Council vote puts second-class city, fluoride questions on ballot
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles City Council approved a Nov. 7 general election ballot resolution Tuesday which would ask voters to revert city government to the second-class city designation it held before 1971 and would mandate new elections for City Council members. The vote on the resolution, proposed by the anti-fluoridation group Our Water, […]
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Spokane woman buys billboards to fight against fluoride
Meet Rose Marie Waldrom; she’s an anti-fluoride crusader and claims that water fluoridation is “public health quackery”. She’s putting her money where your mouth is. “My husband nearly divorced me because I took all of our vacation money and paid for five billboards that are spread around town,” says Waldrom. The reason why she has […]
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Spokane woman buys billboards to fight against fluoride
Meet Rose Marie Waldrom; she’s an anti-fluoride crusader and claims that water fluoridation is “public health quackery”. She’s putting her money where your mouth is. “My husband nearly divorced me because I took all of our vacation money and paid for five billboards that are spread around town,” says Waldrom. The reason why she has […]
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Seven taken to hospital after acid leak at Phillips refinery near Ferndale
Ferndale – Seven workers were taken to St. Joseph hospital Friday night after toxic hydrofluoric acid was released from the Phillips 66 refinery. Three workers were taken to the hospital as a precaution, Phillips 66 said in a statement. They were all contract workers and their conditions weren’t known Friday. The gas leak occurred about […]
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Woodland: Fluoride Tracer Study beginning January 9
The Washington State Department of Health is evaluating the disinfection efficiency at water treatment plants throughout Washington State, including the City of Woodland. The industry standard evaluation includes performing a tracer study to evaluate dispersion of chlorine used in the disinfection process. Because chlorine is continuously reacting and difficult to measure, the tracer study uses […]
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State agency issues health advisory for Port Angeles water utility customers
(OLYMPIA, WA.) — The Wash. State Department of Health is advising Port Angeles Water Utility customers to “seek additional sources of fluoride due to the absence of community water fluoridation.” On Aug. 3, Port Angeles Water Utility stopped adding fluoride to the drinking water. “Fluoride in water is the most efficient way to prevent tooth […]
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Port Angeles to post fluoridation decision on city website
PORT ANGELES — In a rare note of unity, the Port Angeles City Council was unanimous on an issue related to fluoridation. Council members voted 7-0 Tuesday to announce on the city website (www.cityofpa.us) and in city utility bills their 4-3 Aug. 2 decision to stop water fluoridation at least until after a November 2017 […]
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Clallam County. LETTER: Hospital commissioner’s presumption of judgement invalidates his argument
In talking about Commissioner Mike Chapman, Jim Leskinovitch abdicates his duty to reserve bias. Olympic Medical Center Hospital Commissioner Jim Leskinovitch in an Aug. 25 letter to the editor [“Against Chapman”] attacked the candidacy of Clallam County Commissioner Mike Chapman, complaining: “As a member of the county Board of Health, his duty is to support […]
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