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School board candidate facing child sex charges
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The Progress A prominent figure in the Chilliwack district parents’ advisory council and former school trustee candidate is facing several sex-related charges. Corey Neyrinck, 27, was in court Tuesday on allegations of six sex-related offenses, including sexual assault, sexual interference of a person under 16, making or publishing child pornography, and possession of child pornography. He also faced three charges for breaching bail conditions. He is being kept in custody. Neyrinck is well known in the Chilliwack school community. Since 2008, he has been actively involved with McCammon traditional school’s parents’ advisory council, serving the last two years as chair. He also held the position of vice-chair with the Chilliwack District Parents’ Advisory Council for more than a year. Neyrinck also ran in last November’s school trustee byelection, and garnered the second least amount of votes among the six candidates. He was cited last week by the City of Chilliwack for failing to file his election expense disclosure statement; a penalty of $500. According to Chilliwack school district, Neyrinck resigned from both PAC positions earlier this year, and does not currently have access to Chilliwack schools. “He is no longer associated with the Chilliwack school district in any way,” superintendent Evelyn Novak told The Progress. “We take our role of protecting student welfare very seriously and we act quickly on any information that comes to our attention.” Neyrinck is scheduled to next appear in court on April 29.
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Paramedics tend to a man after he was stabbed in the thigh on Wednesday afternoon on First Avenue. A fight broke out between the victim and another man when a third man entered the fight with a knife. The suspect fled the scene and was apprehended by RCMP a short distance away on Princess Avenue and taken into custody. The injured was later taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
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Downtown merchants were buzzing this week following news the biggest movie production in the city’s history will start filming here in May. Chilliwack BIA executive director Kyle Williams confirmed yesterday that there will be a major motion picture filmed in the downtown area next month. The Chilliwack BIA and the City of Chilliwack were scheduled to sit down with the assistant location manager, Michael LeGresley, this morning. He said every effort will be made to avoid disruption in the downtown. Nonetheless, the production will be felt. “We are going to be there in a big way,” he said Thursday. “This is probably the largest project that has ever come across Chilliwack.” Plans are in place for crews to film during two separate weeks in May, for a total of eight days of shooting. The geographic area they’re looking at is huge — approximately 16 square blocks surrounding Five Corners. “This is a very substantial closure, and we will make our best efforts to make sure that everyone is accommodated, from customers to merchants to residents,” said LeGresley. Crews will have a balloon effect on the area. At the beginning of the weeks they’ll be using the largest section of the downtown area needed and gradually get smaller. There will be fewer road closures come Friday and Saturday, which is when stores and restaurants are most busy. “We want to maintain business to all of the merchants. We don’t want the merchants to close down, and we are doing our best to keep them open,” said LeGresley. Details about the production are still being kept tight. Officials will only say it’s a major production that will be filmed in Chilliwack and at locations Continued: MOVIE/ p14