AUGUST 15, 2018 25 CENTS Portland and Seattle Volume XL No. 46 News ................................3,6-8 A & E ........................................5 Opinion ...................................2 Obama’s Picks .................8 Calendars ...............................4 Bids/Classifieds .....................7 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW COURTESY OF CAUSA OREGON CANDIDATE FORUM Supporters of Oregonians United Against Profiling. Statewide campaign is on a mission to educate voters on the importance of keeping Oregon a sanctuary state By Melanie Sevcenko Special to The Skanner A s mid-term elections approach, a coalition of over 200 businesses, organizations, law enforcement and labor leaders have banded together to stop a measure that could overturn a 31-year old Oregon law which has kept undocumented immi- See SANCTUARY on page 3 PHOTO BY JERRY FOSTER Campaign to Protect Oregon’s ‘Sanctuary’ Law Launches On Aug. 14 Jo Anne Hardesty (left) and Loretta Smith (right), both vying for position 3 on the Portland City Council, participated in the first candidate forum since finishing as the top two candidates in the primary, moderated by former Multnomah County Public Health chair Tricia Tillman (center). The event was part of a monthly education and discussion session called Race Talks, typically held at McMenamins Kennedy School in Portland. Interest was so high that organizers moved to the 1,000-capacity Crystal Ballroom, and an estimated 600 people attended the event despite lack of air conditioning in the venue. The winner of the position 3 race will be the first African American woman (and the first woman of color of any race) to serve on the Portland city commission. From Portland to Florence, With Style McKenzie Strong prepares to embark on a career in fashion design By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News AP PHOTO/JAVIER FERGO W The Open Arms Search and Rescue vessel arrives in Algeciras, Spain, Aug. 9. A rescue boat operated by Spanish aid group Proactiva Open Arms carrying 87 African migrants and refugees saved in the Mediterranean Sea has docked at the southern Spanish port of Algeciras after other, geographically closer, European Union countries refused to let it dock. Spain Takes More African Migrants page 6 New Movies Opening This Week page 6 hen McKenzie Strong got inter- ested in fashion, she didn’t have to look far for inspiration. Her maternal grand- mother, who lives in Se- attle, has a closet full of clothes with stories at- tached — and has designed shoes and other garments as well. “I think that style is in- teresting in the way that people choose to tell their story or tell who they are,” Strong said. Learning her grand- mother’s stories helped Strong develop a sense of the way fashion intersects with storytelling, history and social justice issues. Now she’s following those interests to Florence, Italy, where she will study fash- ion design at the Polimoda School this fall. Strong graduated from De La Salle North Catholic High School in 2016, and initially attended Seattle Pacific University, return- ing home to Portland to attend classes at Portland Community College after experiencing a glitch with her financial aid. Strong heard about Polimoda through an old childhood friend who had done a gap year in Europe, then en- rolled at Polimoda, and got in touch with her through their mothers to suggest she apply. Strong spent time working at a clothing store and learning how to put together a design portfolio to submit to the school. Strong said she likes gaudy designs and “flash — I like the flash.” She said she is influenced by a few different periods in fash- ion history, including the mid-twentieth century. She’s also fascinated by African fashion from eras See STRONG on page 3 Not Just Land Heat Waves: Oceans Are in Hot Water, Too Earlier this month, scientists recorded all-time high seawater temperatures By Christina Larson AP Science Writer WASHINGTON — Even the oceans are breaking temperature records in this summer of heat waves. Off the San Diego coast, scientists earlier this month recorded all-time high seawater temperatures since daily measurements began in 1916. “Just like we have heat waves on land, we also have heat waves in the ocean,” said Art Miller of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Between 1982 and 2016, the number of “marine heat waves” roughly dou- bled, and likely will become more common and intense as the planet warms, a study released Wednesday found. Prolonged periods of extreme heat in the oceans can damage kelp forests and coral reefs, and harm fish and other marine life. See HEAT on page 3 In this Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, a Guadalupe fur seal, passes by as SeaWorld animal rescue team member Heather Ruce feeds a California sea lion at a rescue facility in San Diego, with rescue crews seeing a higher than average amount of stranded sea lions.