Category: This Weeks News

BY KATHERINE KELLY I have two little doggies that I walk on the beach daily. It never fails; within moments of stepping out on the beach one of them will do her business. In a short time the other dog will do the same. I usually have a pocketful of poopy bags with me, but…

CREDIT TO FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK A broad coalition of Portlanders have resoundingly rejected adding fluoridation chemicals to the city’s water supply.  By a 61% to 39% margin, Portland voters agreed with the position of most western nations that there are safer, more effective, and less intrusive ways to promote oral health than adding a chemical linked…

BY DONNA WESTFALL On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. This historic decision marked the end of the “separate…

 BY LINDA SUTTER During Tuesdays, May 15th BOS meeting, after presentations by Dr. Greg Duncan and Dr. Kevin Caldwell regarding the regionalization issue facing the County, tears flowed from Supervisor McClure. Both doctors expressed their dissatisfaction from the lack of communication they had received from Supervisor McClure regarding the Study that was being conducted by…

PICTURES BY TED SCOTT

BY DONNA WESTFALL Have you watched or danced: the Waltz, the Charleston, the Lindsey, the Twist, Cha Cha Cha, Tango, the Texas 2-step, Line Dancing,  Square Dancing, or more?  Then, you’re not quite prepared for the Harlem Shake. How it all started: In 1981 a guy named “Al B” full name Albert Leopold Boyce – died…

CREDIT TO FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK FOR THIS ARTICLE. A NEW BILL would see people prosecuted for putting fluoride into the water supply in Ireland – and they could serve up to five years in prison. Sinn Féin spokesperson on Environment, Community and Local Government, Brian Stanley TD published the Health Fluoridation of Water Supplies Repeal…

CREDIT TO FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK FOR THIS ARTICLE Just 6 months ago an appeal to the Israeli supreme court to ban fluoridation was filed,  and now a new “bomb”  in the fight against fluoridation, falling on the desk of Israels’ water supplier – Mekorot. A class action has been filed today against “Mekorot” by “…

SUBMITTTED BY DR. GREG DUNCAN, CHIEF OF STAFF SUTTER COAST HOSPITAL Tomorrow, Tuesday 5/14, 10 a.m. at the Flynn Center (981 H. St.), the Board of Supervisors will be discussing whether or not to participate in Sutter Health’s “independent” study on the future of our hospital.  The first five community members who Sutter asked to participate in…

I am writing to the so-called change in the Del Norte Unified School District bully policy. I thought in the beginning that the change was so spectacular. However in light of recent events at one of the schools here in Del Norte County, I seriously have my doubts. My children are of a mixed ethnicity,…