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Job listing: Program Officer for Washington Dental Service Foundation
Full-time position Posted: January 19, 2010 Closing Date: February 19, 2010 Job #3473 Washington Dental Service Foundation is seeking a Program Officer to become an integral part of our team. The Senior Program Officer will take responsibility for executing the Foundation’s strategies for improving oral health in Washington State through fluoridation of public water supplies. […]
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State stops Othello from sealing well
Othello City Council continues to consider their options to rehabilitate well 6. The well is the largest producing water source in the city pumping more than 3,000 gallons of water per minute. There is also a fluoride contamination coming from various sources in the well. While the sources were identified, the city must prevent the […]
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Fluoridation may make Pasco survey
The issue of fluoride in Pasco’s water may finally reach the public’s door. The Pasco City Council on Monday considered including a question about the controversial topic on the community survey it conducts every two years. Councilman Al Yenney suggested adding water fluoridation to the survey after noticing it wasn’t on the list of possible […]
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Group seeks end to fluoridated water in Pasco
Opponents of Pasco’s longtime use of fluoride in the city’s water supply accused council members Monday night of drugging its residents without their consent. “This is an illegal drug that we’re pushing on everybody,” said Bill Osmunson, a dentist with offices in Bellevue and Lake Oswego, Ore. “The biggest pushers of illegal drugs in counties […]
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Anti-fluoridation group to attend Pasco city council meeting
PASCO — A grassroots group plans to attend the Pasco City Council meeting Monday to protest fluoride being added to the city’s water even though the council hasn’t scheduled time to hear them. Pasco has fluoridated its water supply for more than seven years to promote dental health, but some people believe fluoride can cause […]
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Washington Supreme Court to review fluoridation in Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES — The state Supreme Court will decide if Port Angeles residents can vote to remove fluoride from their drinking water supply. The Supreme Court announced on April 30 that it will review two lower court decisions that threw out two initiatives presented to the Port Angeles City Council in September 2006. The city […]
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State Supreme Court to take up Port Angeles fluoride petitions
(Olympia) — The state’s highest court will review an effort to get fluoride out of the city of Port Angeles water supply. The state Supreme Court agreed last week to review the case of two intiatives that sought to stop the city from adding fluoride to the water. Local environmental group “Protect the Peninsula’s Future” […]
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Pasco to accept $100,000 for water fluoridation
PASCO — Four out of five dentists might have their opinion, but it was five out of seven council members who accepted a grant for water fluoridation on Monday. The city has put fluoride in its water supply for seven years to bolster the oral health of its public. But the practice was reconsidered recently […]
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Pasco debates state grant for water fluoridation
Pasco’s plans to build a new water treatment plant later this year has officially reopened the debate over an age-old controversy — to fluoridate or not to fluoridate the city’s water. “It looks like in the ’40s and ’50s, there was a high degree of argument in favor of fluoridation in water,” Councilman Bob Hoffmann […]
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Skagit County Commissioners vote to halt fluoride program
Skagit County commissioners, acting as the county Board of Health, voted 2-1 today to reverse their 2007 order requiring the Skagit Public Utility District to fluoridate part of its water supply. Commissioners Ron Wesen and Sharon Dillon voted to rescind the order, effectively ending a fluoridation program the PUD had hardly begun in the 21 […]
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