13.1°C Distant Precipitation 
- It's that time of year in Kimberley
- Legislative session opens today in Victoria
- Many communities follow Kimberley's lead on urban deer
- Province and City to discuss deer
- Provincial deficit not as large as projected
- City now owns Canadian Hotel
- Deer on the agenda
- Common sense please, Kimberley
- Provincial election? Maybe not, MLA says
- Bennett appointed to Columbia River Treaty talks
- Kimberley woman attacked by deer
- Kimberley City Council odds and ends
- You're on your own
- No deer deal
- Restricted hunt deferred
- Cranbrook Deer Committee reports
- The nuts and bolts of deer management
- Kimberley Urban Deer Committee delivers report
- Taming the apples of our lives
- Deer committee recommendations in hands of Council
- No action on urban deer until fall
- Restricted hunt in fall
- Kimberley's cull, when and where?
- Why not sterilization?
- Kimberley City Council says no to translocation pilot program
- Cost of cull comes in at $100 per deer
- "We're watching you", SPCA says
Will the injuries sustained by a woman attacked by a deer in Kimberley this week make any difference in the City's ongoing efforts to do something about urban deer?
Not likely, says Mayor Jim Ogilvie. It certainly should, says Columbia River - Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald.
"I don't know," said Mayor Jim Ogilvie. "I don't think so. It didn't make any difference before. This isn't the first time. There's been more than one attack. This is just the only one where the victim was hospitalized as far as I know.
"There have been other attacks, other cases of deer stalking people. Those people just managed to get out of the way."
Ogilvie has written a letter to Minister Terry Lake (Environment) asking for some kind of support and aid in coming to a solution
"People around Kimberley have been saying that sooner or later something like this would happen," Macdonald said. "We just have to find a solution and get to it.
"The province has to be involved. They are the province's deer like Jim says. If the province has the right to set regulations around deer, then they have the responsibility to manage them.
"It does not work to have habituated deer in a community."
In the meantime, Ogilvie says people must get the message to give deer a wide berth.
"Dogs seem to be a real magnet to deer. And they do tend to attack small dogs more than larger ones," he said. "People need to be aware of where the deer are and try to stay away. They are wild animals and as such, they are unpredictable."
