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Another deer count coming Is Kimberley’s urban deer population on the rise again? C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
There was no deer cull last year, and there does not appear to be an appetite on City Council for one any time soon. However, anecdotal evidence would suggest that the number of deer in Kimberley is rising again. Councillor Darryl Oakley, Council representative on the Urban Deer Committee, told Council this week that another deer population count will be conducted in November. These counts have been taking place for the past
couple of years, coordinated by the Ministry of Environment’s Irene Teske. Oakley says that not only does Kimberley not want to lose the count by not doing one this year, but the data is important. Mayor Ron McRae said that he recently spent some time with Deer Committee Chair Gary Glinz talking about the role of the committee and how it may need to be refreshed. “The City continues to support the efforts of the deer committee,” McRae said. “We are very proud of the educational component taking place. “However, the question of a cull continues to be there and the new council will need to sink their teeth into the issue.” See DEER, page 4
TRANSPORTATION ISSUES
City to meet with MOT C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
Mayor Ron McRae will be attending a meeting with the Ministry of Transportation this week, as the province seeks input on transportation priorities for their 10-year transportation plan. Kimberley has a number of issues, but Coun. Kent Goodwin thinks the most important is that of the St. Mary Lake Road and getting the province to take control of it as an arterial highway. The City of Kimberley has been fighting for several years to have the province retake control of the road, to no avail. Goodwin says getting the province to agree could
potentially save the city hundreds of thousands of dollars. There was some discussion on whether to present just one issue or all. Counc. Don McCormick said he would like to see all the issues raised, to get them on the radar screen, while Goodwin said taking one issue and hammering away at it might be more productive. In the end it was decided that McRae would bring up the St. Mary Road first and feel out whether the MOT would be receptive to a more extensive list. Other issues include the Overwaitea Hill and the Wallinger Avenue bridge.
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED
Congratulations to our Sr. Boys volleyball team for winning the Invermere tournament last weekend! The Selkirk Sr. Boys and Girls will be both be in action this weekend, hosting their home tournament Friday and Saturday. The Selkirk girls are having a great season as well being the first Selkirk team placed in a Tier 1 division at the UBC-O tournament. Girls games will be at Selkirk and boys games at McKim.
EXTREME HUNTRESS
Dalke competes in archery challenge TRE VOR CR AWLEY Townsman Stuff
The ladies were back out on the range in Texas, as the fourth episode of Extreme Huntress aired this past weekend. Although Nikita Dalke wasn’t hunting, she partnered up with fellow competitor Erika Bergmark, who was searching for a fourhorned Jacob sheep. All six of the Extreme Huntress competitors also participated in an archery challenge with a traditional recurve bow. The episode began with South Africa’s Margaret Botha, who was on the hunt for an Iranian red sheep, but
she was unable to find her specific animal out on the 777 Ranch pastures. Back at the ranch, Dalke resumed a segment of anit-hunting abuse, where she had to respond to hostile statements about hunters and their motivations. This time, one of the judges questioned how fair it was for the animals to be hunted with the kind of weaponry available now. “They [animals] have their own way of evading you and surviving. It’s what they do, it’s not about a game or a sport, it’s about helping the wildlife flourish, helping them survive so that other generations have them around so they don’t need a
weapon, they have their senses and their senses are way better than ours,” said Dalke. “With a deer, that is what they do to get away from predators and predators have their own way of protecting themselves so it’s a lot more fair than what they think.” Australia’s Christie Pisani got the chance to go out for her hunt, with a one-horned Sitka deer as her objective. However, she was unable to find the animal out in the ranch pastures. Dalke did get back out for another expedition, but she was partnered up with Sweden’s Erika Bergmark, who was on the hunt for a Jacob
four-horned sheep. It was in the same area where Dalke bagged her Black Hawaiian sheep two episodes ago. “I knew the area because that’s where I shot my Hawaiian,” said Dalke. “So she asked me for some advice, just about the sheep and that. “I told her what I knew and stuff, where I found the sheep and it was all her decision on what she wanted to do and she went off on a different path.” The two were able to find a herd of sheep inside some thick brush, but not of the four-horned variety that they were looking for. See HUNTRESS, page 5