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Fluoride backers tout thrift, kids
Proponents of fluoridating water are appealing to voters’ sympathy for underprivileged children as well as their pocketbooks, although some Davis County officials are questioning whether the cost of fluoridation would be as low as proponents have estimated. At a news conference with Salt Lake Valley board of health members, dentists and doctors Wednesday in Salt […]
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Health boards want fluoride on ballot
Representatives of the Utah Association of Local Boards of Health are calling on commissioners of Utah and Davis counties to put the fluoride issue on the November ballot. Gayle Judd, Pleasant Grove, president-elect of the association and chairman of the Utah County Board of Health, said local health departments want the issue on the ballot. […]
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Fluoride Backers Gaining Ground
Rosemary Minervini says she’s not a “fluorophobic.” The Orem resident and president of the Provo chapter of Citizens for Safe Drinking Water just wants the public to hear her side of the contentious water fluoridation debate. With roughly two months remaining before residents in Salt Lake and Davis counties vote on whether to fluoridate public […]
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Let voters have say on fluoride
It looks like Utah County may be the odd county out when it comes to putting fluoridation on the ballot. Salt Lake and Davis counties have already agreed to put the fluoridation issue before voters in November, and Weber County is on the verge of making the decision. Utah County is the only remaining Wasatch […]
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Fluoride vote on Davis ballot
FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — Davis County voters will decide whether their drinking water will be fluoridated. The Davis County Commission has approved a resolution placing on the Nov. 7 ballot the specific question, “Should fluorine be added to the public water supplies within Davis County?” For several years public health officials have been pressing to […]
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Fluoride Backers Push For Davis County Vote
FARMINGTON — The Davis County Board of Health is not about to give up thefight for fluoride.In a letter authorized at a special board meeting Friday, chairwoman Beth Beck asked the Davis County Commission to consider new arguments for putting fluoride on the Nov. 7 ballot. “I’m hopeful,” Beck said. “The commission wants to put […]
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Fluoride Backers Push For Davis County Vote
FARMINGTON — The Davis County Board of Health is not about to give up thefight for fluoride. In a letter authorized at a special board meeting Friday, chairwoman Beth Beck asked the Davis County Commission to consider new arguments for putting fluoride on the Nov. 7 ballot. “I’m hopeful,” Beck said. “The commission wants to […]
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Fluoridation vote still up in air
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Advocates of water fluoridation say obstacles in some Utah counties to put the issue on the November ballot are being made up by opponents. However, officials in Weber, Utah and Davis counties say water districts overlap county lines, and that could make the proposed vote invalid under language of legislation […]
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Fluoride without a fight
CORNISH — Debbie McKnight remembers boasting as a child to classmates in neighboring Lewiston that she had no cavities. “They thought that was pretty cool. I nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah’d them right to death,” says Mc- Knight, now 42 and the mother of three children who, like their mother, have nearly cavity-free teeth. McKnight believes there is a […]
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Utah a national leader by not fluoridating
Utahns consistently reject fluoride because we cut through the enormous endorsements and weigh the facts. We are not behind the times, but ahead of the 60 cities that bucked the system and rejected fluoride in the 1990s. We’re unique because we vote. Most cities are fluoridated by executive order. The task of unmasking this fluoride […]
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