Cumberland residents will go to the polls in a byelection on September 21st to elect a new Village Councillor.
Advance voting opportunities will be held on September 11th and 18th.
Nominations will be received by the Chief Election Officer from August 6th to August 16th.
The byelection is to replace Councillor Jesse Ketler, who is stepping down after ten years on Cumberland council. Her last day on the job will be June 30th.
For more information, visit Village of Cumberland.
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at Tidemark Theatre
The word "éy7á7juuthem" means “Language of our People” and is the ancestral tongue of the Homalco, Tla’amin, Klahoose and K’ómoks First Nations, with dialectic differences in each community.
It is pronounced "eye-ya-jooth-hem."