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Greenwood editorial: Backward to not fluoridate water
For decades, there have been periodic pushes for Greenwood to get with the health community’s mainstream and add cavity-fighting fluoride to its drinking water. Every time there has been a push, the Greenwood Utilities Commission has bowed to the forces of irrational paranoia and done nothing. Let’s hope the latest initiative from the state Department […]
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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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Thunder Bay: Council says no to Fluoride
City council rode a wave of perceived public opinion early Tuesday morning, voting against a resolution to study fluoridating Thunder Bay’s water supply. An option to bring the matter before citizens as a plebiscite was also turned down. “We can educate people on nutrition, proper oral care…those are the steps that I’m prepared to take […]
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City of Thunder Bay’s Report on Water Fluoridation
City of Thunder Bay Department: Transportation & Works Division: Environment Date Prepared: July 3, 2009 Meeting Date: July 20, 2009 Subject: Water Fluoridation Report No. 2009.123 RECOMMENDATION With respect to Report No. 2009.123 (Environment), we recommend that City Council direct Administration to retain professional services to pilot study the addition of fluoride to the City’s […]
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Southampton: Fluoride referendum would be ignored by health authority chiefs
EVEN if you had a referendum we wouldn’t change our minds! That’s the message from health chiefs who say they will plough ahead with plans to fluoridate Hampshire water supplies regardless of whether the public get another chance to air their views. Bosses at South Central Strategic Health Authority say it has already taken on […]
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The Ontario Dental Association supports water fluoridation in Thunder Bay
THUNDER BAY, ON, July 20 /CNW/ – The Ontario Dental Association (ODA) encourages members of Thunder Bay City Council to improve the health of their citizens by voting in support of the implementation of water fluoridation for their community. In a press conference this afternoon, Dr. Ira Kirshen, ODA President, urged both citizens and politicians […]
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Thunder Bay: Water Fluoridation Faces Challenges Tonight
Mayor Lynn Peterson has made no bones about where she stands on the issue of water fluoridation in Thunder Bay. “The Thunder Bay water supply is not fluoridated nor has any decision been made to do so however the Thunder Bay District Health Unit has mounted a campaign to have fluoride added to our water […]
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Coffs Harbour: Survey reveals fluoridation support
A survey of 400 Coffs Harbour residents has found most support the fluoridation of the local water supply. Local company Jetty Research found 56 per cent of respondents agree with fluoridation, 28 per cent oppose it and 16 per cent are unsure. Managing director James Parker says he wanted to see if the anti-fluoride campaign […]
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Catching up: Is fluoride back in water in Poynette?
After a very public and feisty debate last spring and a handful of new village trustees, fluoride quietly returned to Poynette’s water supply on July 9. The new village administrator, Dan Guild, said the equipment has been available — it was just a matter of integrating the chemicals. Last July, the Poynette Village Board voted […]
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Wahiawa. Back in the Day: July 19, 1957
“Back in the Day,” appearing every Sunday, takes a look at articles that ran on this date in history in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Hawaii’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper. The items appear verbatim, so don’t blame us today for yesteryear’s bad grammar. Water FLUORIDATION rejected at Wahiawa Fluoridation is dead in Wahiawa. In the first […]
United States, Hawaii