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Beaverton fluoride debate flows into night
BEAVERTON — The discussion about whether to continue fluoridating much of Tualatin Valley Water District’s water, expand the practice or end it was planned to last an hour. But the talking went on for three hours. Twenty-one speakers divided almost evenly on the subject in a hearing before the five-commissioner board Wednesday night. The commissioners […]
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Beaverton votes for fluoridation
BEAVERTON — By a 53-to-47 ratio, Beaverton voters were favoring a recommendation the city add fluoride to the water it supplies to about two-thirds of city residents. The fluoridation question, forwarded to voters by the City Council in August, was intended as an advisory vote about whether to take the step. Mayor Rob Drake said […]
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Beaverton called to decide on fluoridation
Long before Stand for Children began promoting fluoridation in Beaverton, UNICEF posted its Web site report seriously challenging traditional thinking on fluoride‘s safety and effectiveness in reducing tooth decay (www.unicef.org/programme/wes/info/fluor.htm). Most of Europe — only 2 percent fluoridated, with decay rates comparable to or better than ours — ended the practice of adding fluoride to […]
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Fluoride in Hillsboro water will require a flood of money
Adding fluoride to Hillsboro’s water system could be an expensive endeavor, especially if Hillsboro goes it alone. Preliminary estimates put the cost around or above $1 million, said Joe Thompson, water department director. That number is so high because water enters Hillsboro’s system at nine separate locations, each of which would need a fluoride injection […]
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Fluoridation a hot and cold topic in Hillsboro
The debate over water fluoridation is a divisive one, with science on both sides, as the Hillsboro City Council found out on Tuesday. Proponents of water fluoridation have asked the council to send the question to the voters in November. Opponents told the council it was a bad idea which shouldn’t be discussed further. City […]
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Beaverton will vote on fluoridation
BEAVERTON — City residents will have a say this fall about fluoridating Beaverton’s water. With one City Council member absent, the other four unanimously decided to put the issue to an advisory vote, as requested by Mayor Rob Drake following a sometimes-emotional hearing Monday night. Given three minutes each, 16 people argued against fluoridation; 13 […]
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Hillsboro and Beaverton face Fluoridation Proposals
HILLSBORO — The City Council meeting on Tuesday could turn into a scientific debate over the city’s water supply and children’s health. Even before a children’s advocacy group plans to ask officials to fluoridate Hillsboro’s water, an opposition group is mounting a campaign to keep the chemical out. Stand for Children, a national grass-roots volunteer […]
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Urgent CALL-to-ACTION
To All Safe Water Advocates, Proponents’ efforts to fluoridate the Beaverton/Cornelius/Hillsboro area are in full swing, and, so far, our requests to Beaverton City Council members for an opportunity to present our documentation (either one-on-one or in a work session format) have been denied. The Oregonian, however, is currently soliciting public opinion, which gives all […]
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Beaverton mayor pushes fluoride in city’s water
BEAVERTON — Mayor Rob Drake acknowledges he suffered from tooth decay as a child and as an adult. It’s a problem he thinks water fluoridation could help others avoid. At Drake’s behest, City Council members on Monday will begin considering whether to put the often-inflammatory question of fluoridating water before Beaverton voters on the Nov. […]
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Harmed to the Teeth?
In Oregon, we don’t like sales taxes or self-serve gas, and we don’t like the government messing with our drinking water. The great fluoride fight of 2001 proved that sentiment once again, when legislators considered a bill to require all cities to fluoridate. The pro-fluoride side got nowhere in Salem and now finds itself on […]
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