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Port Angeles to mull options for fluoridation
Port Angeles – Fluoridation options for the Port Angeles City Council will be one of the topics addressed at Tuesday night’s city council meeting. After a series of public forums as well as a community survey, the city council voted to continue fluoridation back on December 15th of last year. That riled up a number […]
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Water-treatment proponents elected to top Port Angeles council positions
PORT ANGELES — The City Council elected Councilman Patrick Downie mayor and Councilwoman Cherie Kidd deputy mayor through 2017 on 4-3 votes Tuesday after discussion that focused, once again, on fluoridation. The council-member tallies were split down lines similar to the council’s much-debated Dec. 15 vote to continue fluoridating the city’s water supply — a […]
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Port Angeles might get new mayor tonight
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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