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Privately-owned York Water Company will fluoridate
The York Water Co. has more than 56,000 customers, none of whom have fluoridated water. The company has never offered fluoridated water to any of its residential, commercial or industrial customers and didn’t plan to – until now. The company in May struck a deal to purchase West Manheim Township’s water system and begin supplying […]
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Editorial: Fluoridation safe, effective
York Water Co.’s empire keeps seeping outward like, well, a water glass spilled on a tablecloth. It’s been moving westward, with customers in Abbottstown and Gettysburg. And southwest: It recently agreed on a deal to buy West Manheim Township’s water system. It may even soon cross the Mason-Dixon Line and provide H2O to Manchester, Md. […]
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Editorial: Add fluoride to York water
In the classic Cold War satire “Dr. Strangelove,” Gen. Jack Ripper goes “a little funny in the head” and orders a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. His reason for attacking? Fluoridation of water. Gen. Ripper believes fluoridation of water was a communist plot to pollute Americans’ “precious bodily fluids.” In a pivotal scene, Gen. […]
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York County meeting on access that people with lower incomes have to dental care and the fluoridation of public water
Dr. Veasey Cullen Jr., sees an underlying irony in the push for fluoridated water. Those who most support making it mandatory and universal are those who have the most to lose from that arrangement. To wit: dental professionals such as himself. “If you have fluoridated water, dentists are the ones who won’t see the patients […]
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DePasquale, dentists push for fluoridated water in York County
The tooth fairy would have a lot less business were it up to local health-care professionals who want to slow decay in the mouths of York County’s youngest and poorest residents. While the cash-for-tooth exchange is fine for natural tooth loss, John M. Bush, DDS, says all too often low-income children lose teeth due to […]
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Altoona City Authority won’t fluoridate its water supply
The Altoona City Authority voted Thursday not to fluoridate the water system. The vote comes two years after the Altoona Hospital Partnership for a Healthy Community asked the authority to add fluoride to the water to help prevent tooth cavities, especially in children. Three months ago, the partnership reiterated that request during a meeting at […]
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Teachers Oppose Fluoride Supplement Program
SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock School District personnel are seemingly unanimous in their recommendation that the district stop distributing fluoride tablets to elementary students. The teachers’ union opposes the practice. The district superintendent does too. Monday night, the district’s two elementary school nurses weighed in on the issue at the board meeting at the Slippery […]
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Slippery Rock Area school board puts cap on fluoride distribution
Slippery Rock Area School Board approved a motion to discontinue the distribution of fluoride tablets by teachers to students during their Jan. 22 meeting. The board also asked superintendent Lee Beaton to discuss alternative methods of distribution of the pills with district dentist David Duryea and district nurses. Over the past three meetings, school board […]
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Slippery Rock teachers won’t hand out fluoride tablets
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. The Slippery Rock School Board has voted not to let teachers hand out fluoride tablets to students. Nancy Moser, president of the Slippery Rock Education Association, says the teachers were worried about the legality of handling the prescription medicine. For the past 15 years, teachers have been giving out one fluoride tablet […]
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Worker’s error caused fluoride spill, state says
Operator error caused the Dec. 10 fluoride spill that contaminated the water supplied to 34,000 homes and businesses in Cumberland and York counties, according to a state Public Utility Commission report. An employee at Pennsylvania American Water Co.’s Yellow Breeches treatment plant in Fairview Twp. used a piece of plastic to hold a manually operated, […]
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