Category: This Weeks News

      Enjoy yourself from 11 – 8 pm, Saturday, April 23rd, at the Del Norte County Fairgrounds. Hear the music of headliners Love and Hate at 5pm in the Main Hall.  Other locals including the popular group, MUDSHARKS will be playing around 1:30.  Ron Nichols, local saxophonist and Jeff Folly, rock and blues will also be there in addition to…

About $1 million a year goes into the coffers of the City of Crescent City from TOT taxes.  TOT stands for Transient Occupancy Tax.  In other words, hotel/motel tax.  There is a segment of our population that believes Crescent City is a destination point and tourism is the generating engine.  Another segment believes there is little to…

On February 7th, in a 3-2 vote, Crescent City, City Council voted to reduce the fluoride levels down to .7 ppm. Currently 66% of the American population ingest fluoride.  The most popular type of fluoride added to the drinking water is called fluosilicic acid or hydrofluosilicic acid, a toxic industrial waste product.  Drinking 8 glasses…

From the Calgary Herald, January 27, 2011:  Committee recommends city eliminate use of fluoride.  Fluoride is added a 0.7 ppm. "One resident, John Chan, argued that doctors were on the edge of "malpractice" by ignoring anti-fluoride literature."   Calgary’s metropolitan area contains over 1 million people.   In correspondence from Councillor, Ward 11, Mr. Brian Pincott to…

Did you know that Del Norte County was 34th IN THE NATION on cancers for white females between the years 1970 – 1994?  While Curry County was 765th? Just look at the National Cancer Institutes web site.   Doesn’t that beg the question, WHY?   Could it be that Del Norte County started fluoridating their water in…

  Several people who I know personally recently have or had wrist and/or shoulder pain. I had such pain in my wrist bones and ligaments that I became nauseated and thought I was becoming unconscious. For 2 weeks I was not able to use my left hand at all and each time I touched my…

  The opposition to Measure A, the clean water initiative, has made the charge that proponents of this measure are outsiders. Projecting much? It is they who have brought in the outsiders, the California Dental Association, with their big money and big lies, trying to defeat a very small coalition of four local women who…

I have been watching this ongoing debate about fluoridating the water and decided to do some research on my own, and frankly, the thought of fluorides in our drinking water completely appalls me.   Fluorine compounds or fluorides are listed by the U. S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease registry (ATSDR) as among the…