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Vol. 40, No. 15
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April 16, 2025
Riverside dentists speak to the importance of fluoride in water
Riverside weighs food truck regulations
Dr. Frank R. Orland’s father helped make fluoridated water the national standard
They’re OK for residents’ events, but the board was split on allowing them downtown
By TRENT BROWN Staff Reporter
Dr. Frank Orland, 78, a retired dentist from Riverside’s Orland Family Dental, grew up drinking water with fluoride in it, as his father, Dr. Frank J. Orland, was a pioneering dentist and his mother, Dr. Phyllis Orland, a pediatrician, even before a majority of the country fluoridated its water. “He had us drink fluoridated water wherever we went. I remember bringing little plastic bottles of water that he fluoridated himself, so we’d have the full effect, even on trips,” Orland said Friday. “My in-laws believed in [fluoride] zealously from the research my fatherin-law did, and it sure proved to be effective. My husband never had cavities [nor] his siblings,” Orland’s wife, Dr. Carla P. Orland, 71, added. See FLUORIDE on page 8
By TRENT BROWN Staff Reporter
CARLA P. ORLAND
FRANK ORLAND PROVIDED
ORLAND TRIO: Dr. Frank Orland, Sr. was a notable researcher in the value of fluoride in water. His son Dr. Frank Orland, Jr. and Dr. Carla Orland, his daughterin-law described how essential fluoride remains.
Riverside trustees have approved rules for food trucks to visit town as part of an event hosted by a resident or existing business, but the village board did not yet decide how to regulate food truck businesses that want to set up shop on their own. At their April 3 meeting, trustees directed staff to allow food trucks, as part of a “special event” put on by someone with a preexisting tie to the village, to operate in any part of the village on private property a limited number of times. While trustees discussed the possibility of allowing food truck businesses to operate independently in town, they did not come to a consensus on whether they should be barred within a certain distance of brick-and-mortar restaurants.
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