Cumberland will have a new councillor Monday afternoon.
Nick Ward is being sworn in this afternoon as council’s newest member.
He won a byelection last month to replace Jesse Ketler, who stepped down in June.
Ward received 535 votes to win the by-election, compared to 169 for Thea Cockerton, and 27 for Ken Barth.
Ward will be sworn in ahead of today’s Committee of the Whole Budget meeting, at 5:30pm.
The public is invited to attend.
To learn more, visit Village of Cumberland.
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Tuesday, November 18, come and learn about bat evolution, biology, roosts and reproduction, habitat, myths and legends, local monitoring projects, and the scien...
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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."