Good Mom’s Day weekend, a connection to the brand new Pope & extra

(WXYZ) — Right here at 7 Information Detroit, we wish to ensure you begin your break day on the suitable foot, knowledgeable about climate, site visitors, the most recent information and extra. That is why we have now the 7 Morning Digest, the place we’ll get you out the door knowledgeable and able to go.

What is the climate for at present?

Metro Detroit Climate: Frost Advisory till 9am, a pleasant Mom’s Day weekend

We are going to maintain the sunshine at present as temps begin to rebound at present via Mom’s Day weekend. Temps will climb into the 70s this each Saturday & Sunday.

Friday: Sunshine with mid 60s for highs. Winds: N 5-10 mph.

Tonight: Largely clear, not a chilly. Temps within the 40s. Winds: Mild

Saturday: Largely sunny with a soar into the mid 70s. Winds: W 5-10 mph.

Any site visitors points?

10-day closure of WB I-696 between I-75 & Lahser begins Friday night time; this is what to know

Up to now, no main site visitors points this morning. Nevertheless, westbound I-696 will shut between I-75 and Lahser for 10 days beginning at 9 p.m. Friday. Study extra about it right here and within the video above.

The highest tales to find out about

‘A really humble man’: De La Salle principal shares private connection to Pope Leo XIV

‘A really humble man’: De La Salle principal shares private connection to Pope Leo XIV

The world has a brand new Pope, as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV on Thursday in Vatican Metropolis.

The primary-ever pope from the USA has a private connection to native Catholic faculty chief Brother Ken Kalinowski, the principal of De La Salle Collegiate in Warren.

Kalinowski knew Pope Leo XIV throughout their time collectively at Villanova College close to Philadelphia and has even stored a present from him all these years later that hangs over his desk.

“Father Bob was the jovial, pleasant, what you noticed is what you bought. He was simply so charismatic,” Kalinowski stated.

Kalinowski grew up in metro Detroit and obtained a full-ride scholarship to Villanova College. Throughout his time on the college, Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, or as Kalinowski and his classmates at Villanova knew him, Father Bob, is remembered with absolute fondness.

“He would simply decide tables and simply sit with totally different children day-after-day and only a delight,” Kalinowski stated. “His complete factor was working for the nice of the poor and ensuring that the least, the final and the misplaced are usually not forgotten.”

The now-principal of the all-boys Catholic highschool says there’s one occasion they shared collectively that he retains with him to at the present time. After his grandmother died within the Eighties, he missed mass for 2 weeks. Father Bob was there to assist.

“He goes ‘Ken, I haven’t seen you at mass’ and I stated ‘Father, with my grandmother passing, I believe Jesus is on trip.’ Effectively few days later, there was an image of Jesus in a body in a field and he left it at my dorm door and I nonetheless have it hanging in my workplace. And it stated, ‘Jesus has returned and he desires you to come back again,'” Kalinowski stated.

Kalinowski has stored that image from the now-Pope Leo XIV throughout his time as a missionary in Papua New Guinea, to serving in Kenya and Mexico Metropolis and now in Warren inside his workplace at the highschool, not figuring out his reward is from the holiest of outdated buddies.

Residents proceed to oppose proposed landfill on border of Wayne and Washtenaw counties

Residents proceed to oppose proposed landfill on Wayne-Washtenaw border

Residents residing close to the Arbor Hills Landfill are voicing issues over a proposed enlargement that may add a brand new landfill to the north of the present web site.

Ronak Nandwana lives close to the landfill, which sits on the border of Salem Township and Northville Township.

“When the dump first got here in right here 50 years in the past, there was no one right here however now, there are such a lot of neighborhoods which have popped up and so they’re constructing much more throughout the road,” Nandwana stated.

The waste administration firm GFL Environmental owns Arbor Hills and has proposed constructing a brand new landfill to the north of the present one, citing that the present landfill is reaching its capability.

Nandwana opposes the brand new landfill due to odor points from the present facility.

“Proper now, we’re northeast of the dump, so perhaps when you have jap winds, perhaps you may solely catch a little bit fringe of the odor. But when it is immediately west of us, we’ll odor it for certain,” Nandwana stated.

We reached out to GFL on Wednesday to speak concerning the proposal and had been informed “no remark.”

Dave Drinan, a Northville Township resident and member of The Conservancy Initiative, a nonprofit group shaped to oppose the landfill, additionally expressed issues concerning the enlargement.

“These of us who’ve invested in properties inside a mile or two of this web site clearly do not wish to must stay subsequent to a brand new landfill,” Drinan stated.

7 Information Detroit’s ‘Let’s Discuss’ visits Karl’s Cabin in Plymouth

7 Information Detroit’s ‘Let’s Discuss’ is at Karl’s Cabin in Plymouth

7 Information Detroit’s “Let’s Discuss” is the place our journalists come to your neighborhood for an open, trustworthy dialog.

We hope to attach with you and listen to about what’s occurring the place you reside. Perhaps you wish to share one thing you are happy with, perhaps there’s one thing you need us to look into, or one thing you are anxious about?

Nothing is off the desk. So Let’s Discuss.

Our aim is to be there for you and really hear. It’s nothing formal, only a informal assembly the place we will speak tales and share concepts. No sign-up is required.

On Thursday, we headed to Karl’s Cabin in Plymouth.

Our June cease might be at Peterlins in Farmington from 4:30 p.m. till 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 4.