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EMC News - Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are still searching for answers after a young man was killed early Saturday morning on Highway 7 near Innisville in an apparent hit-and-run. Police say their investigation leads them to believe Benjamin Rogers, 18, of Tay Valley Township was walking along the highway when a large vehicle, possibly a transport truck, hit him. “A suspect vehicle has not yet been identified,” OPP Sergeant Kristine Rae told the EMC. So far, nobody has come forward. Responding to a body located on the highway – called
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in by a passerby – police were dispatched to the scene (approximately 16 kilometres west of Carleton Place and 20 kilometres east of Perth) around 3:30 a.m. July 23. The highway was closed for several hours. A post mortem examination was conducted Monday (July 25), says Rae. The investigation continues as police try to put the pieces of the crash together. OPP asks anyone who drove on Highway 7 between Perth and Carleton Place between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Saturday to call 613-267-2626 immediately. “We’ve received a few calls,” says Rae, “and they are all being followed up.”
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EMC News – Dr. James Naismith, credited with inventing the game of basketball in 1891, keeps watch in downtown Almonte. Mississippi Mills unveiled the heroic-sized statue of its native son July 23 on Mill Street. Standing behind (from left) are Naismith family members, grandsons Stuart and Jim Naismith; Allen Rae, president of the Naismith Basketball Foundation; and Mayor John Levi. See story and photos on page A/CP1.
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Carleton Place councillor wants fluoride removed from drinking water By JEFF MAGUIRE
EMC Events - Carleton Place councillor Jerry Flynn is determined to see fluoride removed from the drinking water in Carleton Place and he’s hopeful local residents will join him in a campaign to end a practice he feels is harmful to human health. “There is just so much information out there now about the harmful effects of fluoride. I receive more information on a daily basis. And more and more places (communities) have decided to stop fluoridating their water,” Flynn told the EMC. He is urging Carleton Place residents and Canadians in general to “put pressure on their politicians” in an effort to end a program he is con-
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vinced is more negative than positive. There are varying points of view of course, but Flynn is accurate when he says more and more communities are opting to stop putting fluoride in their potable water. A recent example is Calgary, one of Canada’s largest centres, which decided in February to end fluoridation. The council vote was 10-3 overturning a 1989 plebiscite which saw fluoride added to the city’s drinking water in an effort to prevent tooth decay. In Ontario the city of Waterloo decided last October to end the practice. Flynn, who won a second consecutive term on Carleton Place town council in last fall’s municipal election, admits his
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Nine of those centres are in Ontario. Over the years a number of communities have also turned down initiatives aimed at introducing fluoridation. That means they have never put fluoride into their drinking water. Leading the list is Canada’s second most populous city, Montreal. Other cities include Gatineau, across the Ottawa River from the nearby nation’s capital and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Fluoridation first began in Canada 60 years ago. Health Canada statistics (last compiled in 2007) show 45 per cent of Canadians drink fluoridated water. The highest percentage of use is in populace Ontario (75.9 per cent in 2007). British Columbia shows a very low 3.7 per cent
while the Yukon and Nunavut Territories have no fluoride in drinking water. There is powerful support for the practice however. Dentists and official bodies including the World Health Organization and Health Canada contend adding the mineral to water protects teeth from decay. Health effects Opponents, including Flynn, have been swayed by information that fluoride is harmful to human health although that has never been conclusively proven. In Calgary a family physician, Dr. Robert Dickson, led that city’s successful antiSee WATER page A/CP3
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personal determination hasn’t translated into support at the council table here. “The last council (headed by former Mayor Paul Dulmage) voted me down 6-1. I was proposing we investigate it. They didn’t even want to do that,” he laments. Flynn is now convinced the best way to end the practice is to get residents onside in his effort to ban fluoridation here. There is a large citizen movement in Canada to end the practice and Flynn says support nationally is growing. There is also a growing lobby in nearby Ottawa to take fluoride out of the city’s water. “There are now 36 Canadian communities that have quit fluoridating their water since 1990,” Flynn points out.
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