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One method of deer population control the City may explore is hazing — if they can get a permit to experiment on a currently illegal practice, says Coun. Darryl Oakley.
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WednesDAY February 27, 2013
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Man charged with attempted murder Lucky escape for three occupants of a King Street apartment after shots were fired into the window Sally MacDonald Townsman Staff
It was a near miss Saturday night when a 47-year-old Cranbrook man fired shots into a King Street apartment. None of the three people inside the apartment were injured in the shooting. There were no children in the apartment.
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City Council
Deer on the agenda Kimberley’s urban deer population down 50 per cent in latest counts; Committee recommends cull of 25 to 30 C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin
There are fewer deer in Kimberley this winter. That fact is corroborated by the latest counts taken in November of 2012 and by personal observations by members of the Urban Deer Committee and others.
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John O’Bryan of Kimberley sends along this picture of his two year old great granddaughter Alyssa feeding ducks behind Save On Foods in Cranbrook. John has supplied his great-granddaughter with 50 pounds of grain and she is popular with the Mallard population of Cranbrook.
Anti-cull groups speak to Council C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
With urban deer, and the potential for another, smaller, cull under discussion, Council heard from two different groups who pleaded for different, non-lethal, means of deer management.
Speaking to Council were Liz White, Director of the Animal Alliance out of Toronto and spokesperson for the BC Deer Protection Coalition; and Colleen Bailey, spokesperson for Humane Treatment of Urban Wildlife, a group that began in Cranbrook and has joined with the BC Deer Pro-
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tection Coalition. The two brought a number of recommendations to Council, the first being the request that Council adopt a non-lethal deer management program for 2013. Others included: • Review best practices for counting urban deer and de-
velop a protocol for those counts. • Implement a hazing program with measurable goals. • Consider spot hazing/ aversion techniques where there are persistent conflict complaints.
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