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<div>On Dec 1st, Robert Fleming will be making a presentation at a meeting at Regional offices to discuss fluoride. (Please see the following e-mail and attachments that were forwarded to me by one of our local fluoride group members.)</div>

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<div>We hope to hear from other delegates as well, but it would certainly be helpful if some of you could make it to the Regional Council Chambers on Dec 1st to lend your support.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Deb Swidrovich</div>
<div>519-746-8403</div>
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<div><br><br><a name="1253e43e92cfa1ef_1253c80028f8fbc0_1253c6cfd1cefe89_OLE_LINK1"><font color="#000099" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Here are two recent articles on the state of Regional water fluoridation (please see attached).</span></font></a><font color="#000099"> </font></div>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000099" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Robert’s article also appeared in the Waterloo Chronicle this week (slightly abridged).  The Waterloo Chronicle version it is not yet available online.</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font color="#000099">This coming Tuesday there will be a Transportation and Environmental Services Committee Meeting at which ‘Public Health’ and ‘Water Services’ will provide further information to the Regional Committee concerning what precipitated the latest failure to properly notify the public when fluoridation was shut-down.  This meeting takes place Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at the regional headquarters building at <span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)">150 Frederick Street (2nd Floor) Kitchener, Ontario N2G 4J3.  The fluoridation topic will come to the committee at approx. 1:00p.m. For more on what will be presented you may click on the web link provided below. </span></font></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000099" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-CA">Anna Meksavanh</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000099"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-CA">150 Frederick St.</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-CA"> 2nd Floor</span></font></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:meksavaa@region.waterloo.on.ca" target="_blank"><font color="#000099" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-CA">meksavaa@region.waterloo.on.ca</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000099"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-CA">Angela Vieth</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-CA"> has also filed a freedom of information request concerning the failure to notify the public when fluoridation was shut down, as well as provided the Region with a list of questions to answer, now being responded to in the web link above.  Please see Angela’s freedom of information request attached. </span></font></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000099" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-CA">Robert will be presenting at this upcoming meeting and I am sure would appreciate any show of public support you can provide.  Angela will also be attending the meeting. </span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000099" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-CA">Letters to the press would also be helpful to keep this issue in the forefront of the public’s mind, to encourage our elected officials to come clean and fix their mistakes rather that trying to wash them away.</span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000099" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang="EN-CA">Remember that 60% or more of our Region’s citizens now drink bottled water.  If the Region wants to change that, it begins by winning back the public’s trust.  Fixing the fluoridation problems is a good way to begin to rebuild such trust.</span></font></p>
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