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By Tatiana Golovanova
After working in Environmental Health for
43 years, Cliff Clark says he’d do it
all over again. Cliff, who will retire in
April from his job as Director of Environmental
Health, has seen this Region grow literally
in front of his eyes.
Cliff joined the County of Peel in 1959
as a Sanitary Inspector trainee, and by
1964, at only 25 years of age, became the
Chief Public Health Inspector and the youngest
person in Canada to run an Environmental
Health division at that time.
Cliff’s career is remarkably unique
as it is filled with enormous learning opportunities
and exciting challenges. Some of his most
memorable work includes investigating the
typhoid fever outbreak in 1974, being in
the command centre during the Mississauga
train derailment in 1979, and dealing with
West Nile Virus in 2002.
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Cliff
Clark (centre) stands with his team in Environmental
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