Forest Park Review (Newspaper) - May 21, 1986, Forest Park, Illinois Forest Far Public Library Jackson forest FOREST PARK REVIEW Delivered each Thursday by your letter carrier per year in advance Second Class Postage Paid at Forest Illinois USPS 20516000 ike 7451 Madison Street Forest Illinois 60130 Phone 312 3660600 ATAU NEWS STANDS Member Cook County Suburban Publishers Member Illinois Press Association Member Forest Park Chamber of Commerce 21 FOREST ILLINOIS MAY Established in 1917 Picnic tomorrow Hoffman photo and his Animal Kingdom will be among the returning attractions tomorrow Thursday for the annual Pic a major activity of the Forest Park Chamber of The expected to draw an attendance of more than parents and family is set for 11 to 2 on the park district 7501 Harrison Rain date is Families are encouraged to bring picnic lunches and enjoy a day in the fresh Hot potato soft drinks and popsicles are provided free for the school children and are available for purchase by In addition to Animal entertainment for the day includes the Coleman Puppet pony a rock a magic clowns and the Triton Troupers with their circus Children are asked to report to school in picnic clothes at the regular At the picnics those children whose parents were unable to at tend the picnic will be dismissed as follows Betsy Ross from Betsy Ross School from the park Middle School from the park Bernardine School from the park John School from John School from Gar field School K through 3rd from Garfield and 4th through 6th from the The picnic derives its principal financial support from the Chamber of but some public contributions are needed to maintain the event on its present Additional cash donations are still needed to carry this years Contributions can be made payable to the All School Picnic the Park District of Forest 7501 Harrison Forest Park Thompson promoted Charles Whelpley and Of ficer Michael Thompson have been promoted to lieutenant and on the Forest Park Police Their appointments are effective June the same day that Robert Conklin will officially assume his position as 47 and a lifelong Forest Park joined the department on 1963 and was promoted to sergeant in Oc tober of He has been active in a number of law enforcement organizations and currently is in his first year of a term as state president of the Illinois Police an organiza tion with over He was appointed by Attorney General Neil Harti gan to serve on the statewide Law Enforcement Advisory Whelpley is also a past vice president of the Illinois Juvenile Officers Association and past president of the West Suburban Juvenile Officers He and his Carol have two both attending college on football joined the de on and has been serving as an investigator for about six He is a gradu ate of Oak Park River Forest High School and holds a masters degree in criminal justice from Pacific Western Enci Thompson and his Mary are the parents of a Memorial Day services Monday Forest Park VFW Memorial Post and American Legion Post invite village residents to join them in paying their re spects to those Americans who gave their lives in the service of their country at Memorial Day services scheduled for 2 Monday on the park district 7501 Harrison Guest speaker will be Major Dennis Marine Corps Air Group 48 based at Glenview Naval Air The invocation and benediction will be offered by John Fearon of Bernar Also expected are State Judy Baar Topinka and State Jack Wreaths gifts many of will be presented during the brief If the people of our communi ty would stop by the park at 2 Monday and give us a very little said Robert chairman of the it would contribute to a more mean home loans available Home buyers can secure 30year mortgages at a low percent in terest under the Targeted Home Loan according to Ted Leverenz Leverenz said the home loan administered by the Illi Housing is offer ing million in mortgages to potential homeowners on a The program was originally geared towards but has since changed its eligibility requirements and opened its lend ing fund to all interested home Leverenz I strongly encourage all area residents who are in the market for a new home to take advantage of the Theres no telling when interest rates will be this promising Leverenz said the is op a tollfree hotline to field questions about the program and supply information on participat ing area Interested home buyers should call between and 5 Monday through Your Village Council meets next Tuesday evening at Grams issues denial of charges by former cop Arthur Grams who re signed May 12 as Forest Parks police chief and two days later was the subject of a Channel 2 investi has issued a formal statement denying the allegations of child molestation contained in the news segment aired at 6 and 10 last A former Forest Park police of Richard had gone on the air with his daughter to allege that Grams had taken photos of the girl while she was partly A 13year old Oak Park girl was also quoted as saying that she had been sexual ly molested by Grams during a Take a Kid Fishing trip spon sored by the Oak Park Police of which Grams was a The incidents allegedly occurred in the early to mid Channel 2 aired the story with out contacting saying he was out of the country on a fish ing trip and could not be In his Grams I was in Wisconsin with my family and returned im mediately upon receiving informa tion about this 1 am totally devastated that the station would put this on the air with literally no attempt to contact me to make a As a my reputation and my good name have been dragged through the I am now put into the position of making denials of accusations of incidents which did not occur and which are I have no intention of discussing the merits of these accusations through the news for 1 feel the damage to me and my family has already been I will deal with this situation in the future through a court of I have retained counsel to ad vise me if any action can be taken against the parties at I take comfort only in the fact that my relatives and friends know there is no truth to these On the heels of the Channel 2 at least one investiga tive agency of the state edged that it would open a file on the prompting Mayor Fred Marunde to The Village council and I have made it clear that we will cooperate with their investigation in every It the news report came as a shock to and of course it is very said the I really have no comment to make right now except to say that we will do nothing to impede any investigation that may result from all Archambault went on medical disability from the Forest Park department in 1977 and is current ly employed by the Commissioner of Banks and Trust Companies of JOIN THE For information on how and where you can call 4420149
