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6 | October 26, 2017 | The lake forest leader NEWS
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Police Reports
LF man charged with DUI after passing out in middle of the road while driving
Roman J. Koperski, 70,
of the 1100 block of S.
Ridge Road, was charged
with a DUI of alcohol at
5:45 p.m. on Oct. 15 at the
intersection of Old Elm
Road and Highland Avenue
in Lake Forest.
Police and the Lake Forest
Fire Department were
called to the scene of a vehicle
stopped in traffic with
the driver passed out in the
vehicle with the engine
running. Fire personnel arrived
and assisted Koperski
out of the vehicle. Police
officers on scene could
smell a strong odor of alcohol
coming from Koperski.
Police and fire units assisted
him to an ambulance
where he was then transported
to Lake Forest Hospital
for treatment.
Based on officer’s observations
and follow up conversation
with Koperski,
he was eventually charged
with a DUI of alcohol.
Oct. 18
• Burglary to a motor vehicle
was reported at 10:17
a.m. in the 1000 block of
Fairview Road. Police
spoke to the homeowner
and determined sometime
overnight persons
unknown entered an unlocked
vehicle parked in
the driveway and stole a
Garmin GPS unit. Police
have no suspects in this
case. On this same night,
Lake Bluff police reported
eleven incidents of burglary
to motor vehicles
and one motor vehicle
theft that occurred overnight.
Oct. 16
• Raymond Smith, 39, of
Evanston, was charged
with failure to reduce
speed to avoid and accident,
no proof of insurance
and driving with a
suspended driver’s license
at 4:55 p.m. in the intersection
of Waukegan and
Westmoreland roads.
Oct. 14
• Beginning around 7:30
p.m. the Lake Forest Fire
Department began getting
calls for flooding with
stalled cars and people remaining
or trapped in their
vehicles. The Lake Forest
Fire Department received
approximately 10 calls
for vehicle with people in
floodwater. The fire department
rescued eight
people and two dogs from
flooded vehicles. Crews
also responded for smoke
in the basement and a
natural gas leak. The Lake
Forest Fire Department
received assistance from
the Deerfield, Highland
Park, Lake Bluff, Knollwood
and Libertyville fire
departments. The fire department
utilized the Code
Red System to notify Lake
Forest residents of the unsafe
road conditions and to
avoid travel if possible as
many roads were impassable.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The
Lake Forest Leader’s Police
Reports are compiled from
official reports found on file
at the Lake Forest and Lake
Bluff Police Department
headquarters. Individuals
named in these reports are
considered innocent of all
charged until proven guilty in
the court of law.
THE WILMETTE BEACON
Library receives highest
possible opinion from
auditor
The Wilmette Library
Board has been awaiting
the results of its audit, particularly
as it prepares to
approve and file its annual
tax levy request before the
Cook County Clerk’s December
deadline.
The results are in, and
the library received an
“unmodified” opinion —
the highest possible opinion
it could have received
— from its auditor for
the fiscal year concluding
June 30, 2017.
A draft of the audit report
was discussed during
the board’s Tuesday, Oct.
17 meeting.
The draft report still requires
some minor tweaking,
according to Daniel
A. Berg, certified public
accountant and partner in
Sikich LLP (the firm that
conducted the audit).
“The audit went very
smoothly again this year,”
Berg said.
The library’s total
net positions rose from
$22,013,672 for the fiscal
year ending June 30,
2016, to $23,006,340 for
the year ending June 30,
2017, according to the
draft audit report, good for
a $992,668 increase in net
positions.
In capital expenses, the
year saw investment of
$8,654,982 in capital assets.
Restricted net positions
included: the audit
($7,512), liability insurance
($40,278), endowment
($37,240), capital improvements
($5,497,897),
retirement ($473,183) and
programs ($183,148).
As for the Illinois Municipal
Retirement Fund,
the library’s net pension
liabilities dropped slightly
from $1,421,464 to
$1,379,909. The library’s
89 percent funding level
of pension liabilities is
considered “very healthy,”
Berg said.
Reporting by Fouad Egbaria,
Freelance Reporter.
Full story at WilmetteBeacon.com.
THE HIGHLAND PARK LANDMARK
Illinois Holocaust Museum
debuts ‘Take a Stand
Center’
Fritzie Fritzschall remembers
stepping out of
the cattle car and forming
lines heading into Auschwitz-Birkenau
concentration
camp in Poland.
She, along with the other
captives who survived
the trip, were formed
into lines based on their
age and put through processing.
It was the last
time she would see her
mother.
She was the youngest
in a factory of 600 women
who worked as slave
laborers. Those women
banded together and collected
small portions of
their bread rations to give
to her to ensure her survival
so she could tell their
stories and the stories of
others.
And so she did.
Fritzschall’s story,
along with the story of
other Holocaust survivors,
can be found at the Illinois
Holocaust Museum’s
new attraction, the Take A
Stand Center, which opens
Sunday, Oct. 29.
“One of the early priorities
under my tenure
as CEO was to secure our
programatic future, and
that has many different elements
to it, but the most
time sensitive, the most
urgent, was how will we
tell survivor stories for
generations to come,” said
Susan Abrams, Illinois
Holocaust Museum and
Education Center CEO.
Abrams, of Highland
Park, said the new exhibit
gives attendees the chance
to hear the stories of Holocaust
survivors and, using
hologram and voice
recognition technology,
actually ask the survivors
questions.
The hologram is projected
onto a screen on the
stage of a small theater,
and the audience members
can ask questions, which
the person will then answer.
The Illinois Holocaust
Museum has one of the
largest speaker’s bureaus
in the world, with 60 total
members, Abrams said.
Reporting by Xavier Ward,
Contributing Editor. Full
story at HPLandmark.com.
THE GLENVIEW LANTERN
Potential apartment
complex divides village
trustees
After listening to a detailed
presentation from
Director of Planning Jeff
Brady, hearing the concerns
of two residents
and engaging in a short
discussion, the Glenview
Village Board at its
Tuesday, Oct. 17 meeting
voted to continue consideration
of rezoning property
at 624-654 Waukegan
Road until its Nov.
9 meeting. The rezoning
would allow the property
to accommodate Active
Adult Apartments.
“It seems that there are
too many questions [to
consider] for two people
to be missing,” said Trustee
Philip O’C. White, who
made the motion to postpone.
He was referring to the
absence of trustees Deborah
Karton and Michael
Jenny.
The developer of the
proposed Active Adult
Apartments subdivision
is Trammell Crow Co., of
Oak Brook, and the site includes
a former car dealership
and an existing salon.
The Glenview Plan
Commission gave preliminary
approval by a 3-1
vote following four public
hearings.
Active Adult Apartments
would contain 169 onebedroom
and two-bedroom
rental units. It would be a
four-story building extending
upward to 45 feet at
the roof deck and 48 feet to
the top of the parapet wall.
There would be underground
parking, an interior
courtyard and a pool.
In the background
would be the Glenview
water tower, which
is 155 feet in height.
Reporting by Neil Milbert,
Freelance Reporter. Full
story at GlenviewLantern.
com.