The Port Angeles city council could select a new mayor for the city tonight. But the debate on who gets the job will most likely be pinned to a recent decision to continue adding fluoride to the city’s water. Council member Sissi Bruch now says she would support adding her name as a possible candidate […]
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Fluoride may play a role in Port Angeles mayor selection
PORT ANGELES — The City Council’s disputed 4-3 decision to continue fluoridating Port Angeles’ municipal water supply has seeped into an emerging tussle over who will be the city’s next mayor. Councilwoman Sissi Bruch, a fluoridation opponent who won a second term in November, said this week she will nominate herself to be the city’s […]
Port Angeles votes to continue water fluoridation; opponent to keep up work against treatment
PORT ANGELES — A key fluoride opponent vowed to fight on despite a split City Council vote that committed to continuing municipal water fluoridation through June 30, 2026. “Don’t pack away your fluoride papers quite yet,” Dr. Eloise Kailin implored council members Tuesday. About an hour earlier, they voted 4-3 to continue fluoridating the city’s […]
Port Angeles: Fluoride To Stay
Port Angeles – In a 4-3 vote, Port Angeles City Council members voted in favor of keeping fluoride in the city’s drinking water supply. That vote by council members came despite the survey returns by city water customers. A 56% majority did not want fluoride as an additive in their water supply. Port Angeles City […]
Port Angeles Citizens Vote Against Fluoride
Port Angeles – Results are in from the fluoride survey sent out by the City of Port Angeles, and a majority of the respondents voted against the continuance of adding fluoride to the city’s water. The City Council polled the City’s water utility customers by mail with surveys sent out to each water utility customer […]
Port Angeles: Water fluoridation survey count starts this Monday
PORT ANGELES — Former Clallam County Auditor Patty Rosand will begin her count of advisory city water fluoridation surveys Monday amid impressions that fewer surveys were filled out and sent to the city than anticipated. Rosand said Friday she could complete the tabulation as soon as Tuesday. “I will be surprised if it takes us […]
Speakers spar over fluoride at Port Angeles forum
PORT ANGELES — Health care professionals and local residents took part in a lengthy battle over fluoridation of city water at a special City Council forum. More than 60 speakers expounded for three minutes each Thursday night in the packed City Council chambers, commenting on the positives and negatives of continuing the 10-year practice of […]
Port Angeles Fluoride hearings continue on Thursday
Port Angeles – The public hearing process continues this Thursday over the fluoridation of the Port Angeles water supply. The city has turned to the public to help decide whether or not to continue adding fluoride to the water. A contract with the Washington Dental Foundation runs out in 2016, and that had been adding […]
Panelists present opposing fluoride views in Port Angeles forum ahead of advisory survey
PORT ANGELES — It was study vs. study last week at a forum where opposing panelists presented familiar arguments and copious information in preparation for a Nov. 6 advisory survey on city water fluoridation. More than 100 onlookers overflowed City Council chambers Thursday to hear panelists alternately express confidence and criticism of fluoridating water that’s […]
Pros and cons of water fluoridation to be argued at Thursday forum in Port Angeles; rally to precede debate
PORT ANGELES — A Thursday forum will kick off two weeks of city water fluoridation scrutiny that will culminate in a Nov. 6 advisory survey of 10,000 water users. Council members will use the results when deciding whether to continue fluoridating city water pumped from the Elwha River. A pledge made 10 years ago to […]