Invermere Council Feigns Fear of the Invermere Deer Protection Society and Closes it's Deer Committee to the Public

Columbia Valley Pioneer, August 17, 2012

In brief: District of Invermere

Pioneer Staff

• At a Committee of the Whole meeting on July

31st, Invermere Council voted to keep future meetings

of the town’s Urban Deer Management Advisory

Committee private, in order to protect members

from disruptions from the public.

All of the minutes of the deer committee will come

forward for the review of the public at four quarterly

Committee of the Whole meetings. The decision to exclude

the public from regular deer committee meetings

was designed to keep the group progressing.

“Considering the way that the Invermere Deer

Protection Organization has handled itself in the

past, I don’t think it would be helpful to have them

show up and be very disruptive to the committee,”

said Councillor Paul Denchuk.