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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS March 1, 2016 | 75¢
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Health board backs fluoride
Documentary discussion
Official: County proposal unlikely BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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From left, filmmaker Mitch Mattrow of Seattle, Diana Somerville, Barbara Solomon, Howard Sprouse and Karen Sulllivan address an audience of about 40 people Thursday evening at the Port Angeles Library following the screening of a documentary about Navy plans to conduct electronic warfare exercises on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Short film highlights impact of Navy warfare training co-founder and spokesman of West Coast Action Alliance, said last week following the screening of a short film about the issue by Mitch Mattrow of Seattle. The screening at the Port Angeles Library was viewed by an audience of about 40 people. BY CHRIS MCDANIEL The untitled video can be viewed at PENINSULA DAILY NEWS http://tinyurl.com/PDN-ByAirLand-Sea. Following the showing, Sullivan and PORT ANGELES — Environmental other activists interviewed in the film activists opposed to Navy plans to contook turns addressing the audience. duct electromagnetic warfare training “This needs to become a national on the North Olympic Peninsula are working to bring attention to the project issue where all of us are speaking out on this with all of the voice that we can to the national stage. muster,” Sullivan said. “This is actually a national issue — an international issue,” Karen Sullivan, “Form a group, organize, make your
Peninsula activists seek to broaden opposition to issue
voice heard, lend a hand.” The Navy is seeking a special-use permit from the U.S. Forest Service to deploy — on 12 Olympic National Forest roads — three camper-size vehicles that would emit electromagnetic signals. The trucks would engage in realtime exercises with radar-jamming jet pilots from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. The Navy’s environmental assessment of the project concluded the activity, which includes the emission of electromagnetic radiation, would not result in significant environmental impacts. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Although the Clallam County Board of Health has endorsed the use of fluoride in public drinking water systems county wide, the three county commissioners are not likely to consider enacting a law requiring water fluoridation any time soon — if ever, Commissioner Mike Chapman said Monday. Chapman also serves on the Board of Health. “I just don’t think that is something the [commissioners are] going to be looking at this year,” he said. “I don’t expect that will happen. Nothing is scheduled. We just went over our work session items for the next month or two, and that Chapman issue on fluoridation did not come up.” That doesn’t preclude candidates running for the Board of County Commissioners this fall from campaigning on the issue, he added. After 16 years in office, Chapman has said he will not seek a fifth term as commissioner. “It could be that with an open seat and whoever is running for office — they may bring it up this fall during the campaign,” he said. During its monthly meeting Feb. 16, the Board of Health adopted a resolution on a 6-to-1 vote to endorse “community fluoridation as part of a comprehensive effort to improve oral health that includes: topical applications of fluoride in select populations; public health education on dental hygiene and the impact of application of fluoride in select populations; public health education on dental hygiene and the impact of tobacco and diet on oral health; access to preventive dental services; and access to restorative care.” TURN
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PA revs up tourist engine for ferry traffic Discount program for visitors BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Downtown Association, the Red Lion Inn and Black Ball Ferry Line are rolling out the red carpet for their Canadian neighbors with the inaugural “At Par” promotion. The promotion offers discounts to Canadians — especially those living on Vancouver Island — at local eateries and hotels, although Americans using the ferry line and staying at Red Lion are not barred from participating, organizers say. The promotion began Monday
it gets pretty slow,” he said. “We’ve missed not having them “It is a highly seasonal market, here and not having the ferry serand there isn’t a lot of industry vice. It is just a gesture of apprein tandem with the resuming of that keeps tourism afloat during ciation.” Depending on the success of the MV Coho ferry’s service to the offseason.” this inaugural promotion, Utz Victoria after a two-month hiatus while a new wharf was con- Symbiotic relationship said it might become an annual structed at its Canadian terminal. tradition. The promotion recognizes the The promotion aims to increase “I hope so,” he said. “Maybe local business during the offsea- importance of the symbiotic rela- next year we could make it a Febson, Robert Utz, Red Lion of Port tionship the North Olympic Pen- ruary, March, April promotion.” Angeles general manager, said insula and Vancouver Island enjoy, Utz said. Monday. How it works Utz said the two border com“Hopefully, it will stimulate During the promotion — runsome business right off the bat,” munities “are tied together at the with tourists getting off Black hip. I think this connection is ning now through April — particiBall’s Coho “and into hotels and important for both the Olympic pating businesses on the North Peninsula and Port Angeles and Olympic Peninsula will offer local businesses,” he said. products at a 27 percent discount There is no question the winter Vancouver Island and Victoria.” The promotion, he added, is — for the average exchange rate months are a lean time of year for not only a big thank you, but a between the currencies — to those the hospitality sector, Utz said. “Once we get through October, welcome back,” he said. who present an “At Par Passport”
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issued by organizers, a Canadian ID or a “Get off the Rock” button received from Black Ball or a hotel. All offers will be featured on www.GetOfftheRock.com. “If they are Canadian, we are making this very easy,” Utz said. “All they have to do is show a Canadian ID to our participating businesses or the Black Ball Ferry as ‘Get off the rock’ buttons that they can put on or present that would qualify them at the participating businesses for the discounts as well.”
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