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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Support group weighs in on when and how to get a hearing aid
The Hearing Loss Support Group at the Gardiner
Library will meet on Thursday, October 12 at 1:30 p.m.
Anyone who has a hearing loss or family member with a
hearing loss is invited to attend. Speaker Susan Arnao,
Au.D., CCC-A, FAAA will discuss “When do I need
hearing aids and what do I do next?”
Susan Arnao received her Clinical Doctoral Degree
in Audiology from Arizona School of Health Sciences
at A.T. Still University. She has been a member of the
SUNY New Paltz faculty since 2001. Currently, she is the
Coordinator of Audiological Services at the SUNY New
Paltz Speech, Language and Hearing Center and teaches
courses in Audiology, Aural rehabilitation, Clinical
Methods in Audiology and Audiological Practicum at
both the graduate and undergraduate level.
The Hearing Loss Support Group meets the second
Thursday of each month from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Walden moves closer to eliminating fluoride in its water system
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on to the next part of the process if they chose to. “If the
board is satisfied with the health professional and you
wish to move forward with the discontinuation of the
fluoride, it would be appropriate at this time for you to
authorize me to prepare a resolution for the next meeting
(Oct. 17) to commence the process of discontinuing
the use of fluoride in the village drinking water,” he
explained to the board. The group then voted 6-1 in favor
of continuing the process, with Deputy Mayor Sean
Hoffman casting the sole vote against the measure.
If the board decides to drop the issue altogether,
water fluoridation would simply continue on, but last
Tuesday the council decided to forge ahead.
“After we examined all the statements by the health
care professionals, we have decided we are going to
move forward with the process,” Walden Mayor Susan
Rumbold said.
Under state law, the village would have to inform the
state Department of Health three months in advance
if they wanted to stop adding fluoride to the water,
and would have to craft an alternative health plan for
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“We’d have to compile the data from the professionals
and we’d have to provide the state with our reasoning to
remove it and our plan for informing the public how to
access fluoride if that’s what they choose to do,” Rumbold
said. “Right now we’re in a paperwork phase. We’d have
to give the state 90 days prior notice before we can remove
it, so we’re basically moving on to the compilation phase
of getting all this information together.”
The state implemented a law two years ago to
slow the process for any municipality that chooses to
discontinue water fluoridation, and the board would
still have to vote to rescind the local law that allows
the village to add fluoride to public water before the
practice could be halted. “Certain board members felt
this was something they wanted to revisit and the law
has changed,” Rumbold said. “The law used to be that a
board could vote to remove it arbi