Please click the link below to see the list of Candidates for the 2022 election to be held on February 25th, 2022 at the Upper Similkameen Indian Band office.

Candidates

COVID-19 VACCINE CLINIC

JANUARY 19TH

9 am – 4 pm

JANUARY 20TH

10 am – 6 pm

Location: USIB Health Centre

Vaccines:   Dose 1, 2 and Booster Available: Adult (19 +) Youth (12-18yrs) Child (5-11yrs)

Please call Patricia at 250-292-8733 to book your appointment.

If you have any questions, please call the band office and ask to speak with Health Director Norissa.

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the electors of the Upper Similkameen Indian Band will be held at the Upper Similkameen Indian Band Administration Offices on Friday 14th day of . January 2022, beginning at 4 pm until 7 pm and lasting at least three hours, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the positions of Chief and Councillors for the Upper Similkameen Indian Band, for the next term.
The election will be held in the Upper Similkameen Indian Band Administration Offices located at the Snaza’ ist Visitor Centre, 161 Snaza’ist Street Hedley, BC, on Friday 25th day of February 2022. All Upper Similkameen Indian Band members 18 years or older are eligible to vote, any elector may vote by mail-in ballot.
Please note that any voter may nominate candidates by using a mail-in nomination form. You can either deliver or mail in a written nomination and a completed, signed and witnessed voter declaration fom1 to the Electoral Officer before the time set for the nomination meeting OR you may nominate candidates orally at the nomination meeting. Mailed nominations not received by the Electoral Officer before the time set for nomination meeting are void. Also, note that any voter may vote by mail-in ballot.
Given under my hand at Westbank. British Columbia, this 14th day of December 2021.

Effective immediately Lesli Lorincz is no longer working for USIB. We want to thank Lesli for all her years of service and wish her all the best for the future.

The health team is currently working with the First Nation Health Authority to secure a replacement nurse while we search for our new Home Care and Community Nurse.

If you require anything health-related, please contact Patricia at reception. Phone 250-292-8733 or email

**Attention Community**

The covid booster clinic has been cancelled for today. Once it has been rescheduled, the health team will be making call-outs to rebook your appointments. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Chief and Council would like to formally announce the resignation of Lesli Lorincz, Home Care and Community Health Nurse Supervisor, effective January 28^th, 2022.

We are all very appreciative of all the hard work and dedication Lesli has demonstrated over the past 6.5 years, and we want to wish her all the best in her future endeavours.

Thank you Lesli, you will be missed!

For those who receive water jugs from the band office a reminder that we will be closed for the Holidays starting Friday, December 17^th, 2021, and will reopen on Monday, January 3^rd, 2022, if you require water for this time, please contact Patricia at the office 250-292-8733 by 12 pm Thursday, December 16^th, 2021, to make arrangements for pick-up.

You can now pick up your pass any time between 9 am and 3 pm seven days a week.

Passes can only be collected in person at the resort due to the requirement that a waiver is signed. Anyone under 19 needs a guardian to sign their waiver. Not necessarily parents, but an adult willing to sign for them when picking up their season pass.

Masks will be mandatory to both pick-up passes and ride the lifts.

There is a maximum of one family group of up to six people or 1 individual in the season pass office at a time so there may be some waiting outside.
If you have any questions, please call Patricia at 250-292-8733.

****Attention Community****
The office is getting electrical upgrades tomorrow December 10th, 2021 and will be closed for the day. We will reopen Monday, December 13, 2021, at 8:30 am