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    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.