Detroit, MI
Spirit of Detroit’s pride (of Lions) is back
The Spirit of Detroit is again swelling with pride — the kind found at Ford Field.
The city’s iconic statue outside the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center building downtown at Woodward and Jefferson is wearing a Detroit Lions jersey again, dressed for a special occasion. The Lions will host their first playoff game in three decades and the first ever at Ford Field.
Ellen Trudell, a spokeswoman for the Detroit Lions, said the team appreciates the outpouring of support it gets from fans.
“It’s exciting for us as an organization to be able to tap into our community on such a large scale and celebrate being in the post-season,” she said. “It’s also an opportunity for the community at large and our fans to engage with the Spirit of Detroit and their Lions fandom in a major way.”
The city landmark last donned the Honolulu blue and gray football jersey in 2015 when the Detroit Lions took on the Dallas Cowboys in a playoff game in Texas for a wild-card spot. The Lions lost 24-20.
But the sculpture isn’t the only Detroit icon displaying its support for the team.
Officials with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan said Monday they will be lighting up the health insurance company’s Lafayette Tower in Detroit Honolulu blue.
Beginning Monday, the tower will display a blue and white football in lights.
“Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan congratulates the Detroit Lions for clinching a spot in the NFL playoffs,” Daniel Loepp, the company’s president and CEO, said in a statement Monday. “The talented and tenacious team has galvanized its dedicated fanbase throughout the state.”
He said the company is “proudly lighting our Detroit office tower in the team colors for the rest of the season” to show its support of the Lions during the team’s quest to reach the Super Bowl.
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Chickens and geese that went missing from a local nonprofit’s Detroit site were found in the backyard of a nearby home, the director of operations said Wednesday.
The Full Circle Foundation, a Grosse Point Park-based nonprofit, said more than a dozen chickens and geese were believed stolen from a chicken coop on Detroit’s east side that also features the Full Circle Edible Garden.
The nonprofit provides training and job opportunities for young people with special needs.
Neighbors who learned from news reports about the missing flock found the “chickens were being held in the backyard of a vacant home not far from the Full Circle Edible Garden,” said Stephanie DiVirgil, director of operations. She said Ribbon Farm 4-H owns the flock.
“The homeowner was contacted, and she reached out to Full Circle to confirm,” said DiVirgil. “We were able to retrieve all of the chickens and geese that were found on the property, 19 in total.”
The foundation and Ribbon Farms 4-H are working to secure the site, including cameras, fencing and lights.
“We will likely start a fundraising campaign to have these items installed,” DiVirgil said. “We’ve gotten amazing support from the community, including offers to help pay for these additional security measures.”
DETROIT (WXYZ) — Human remains were found in a furnace of an home on Detroit’s west side, the Detroit Police Department tells us.
The remains was found by an individual working on the home in the 5200 block of S Clarendon just after 11 a.m.
Anyone with information can call 313-596-2260 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-SpeakUp.
Stay with WXYZ.com for updates on this developing story.
The Detroit Police Department is investigating after a 5-year-old child was shot in the arm near a park on Tuesday.
The shooting happened at about 8:50 p.m. near the Fargo-Oaklfield Playground on the city’s west side. Police Chief Todd Bettison says the child was in front of his home riding a bike with his father supervising at the time of the shooting.
Bettison says an individual at the park fired multiple shots, striking the child. He says the boy’s father reported hearing shots and the child falling from his bike.
Bettison says the child is expected to be OK.
Bettison says the person appears to have been firing shots randomly, which he calls “problematic.” He says a person of interest is described as possibly between 15 and 16 years old and wearing a mask. He says the person is known to frequent the area.
“When you fire a weapon, what goes up must go down,” Bettison said. “To parents and everyone, know where your kids are. Juveniles should not have guns, and whether you’re an adult or a child, you should not be firing a weapon inside of the city limits.”
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield released a statement, saying in part, “By the grace of God, this young boy will recover from his injury and is on his way home from the hospital. With that said, this incident was senseless and could have had a much more tragic ending.
“Every child in Detroit deserves to feel safe riding their bike, playing outside, and simply being a child in their own neighborhood. We cannot accept a reality where our children are placed in harm’s way because someone chose to recklessly fire a gun.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-Speak Up.
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