PORTLAND DRIZZLE

💃Great Monday. Pull the box fan out of the garage. A heat advisory kicks in at 11 a.m. tomorrow and runs through Tuesday night, with highs near 99 and barely any overnight relief. Potential rains later in the week. This past weekend included a Juneteenth parade, a Pride parade, and the Delta Park Powwow. Not featured in today’s news stories, but I wanted to share anyway- a short piece calling for more spending on river recreation here.

Thavatsay Phimmoungkhoun, the guy everyone on the PSU campus just calls Nong, walked out of a Tacoma immigration detention facility this week after two months locked up. His family closed his Khao Niew food cart back in April when ICE detained him, and the PSU community rallied hard, the kind of outpouring that makes you remember why people loved getting lunch from this cart in the first place. DHS says Nong has been a lawful permanent resident since 1987, but also pointed to a decades-old drug and harassment record and a 2011 deportation order as reasons he was detained. His family calls it a victory, but not the end of the fight. No word yet on whether the cart reopens. KPTV

Just before 2 a.m. Saturday, police got called to a crash on the Southeast Powell Boulevard ramp off I-205 and found a BMW upside down inside a fenced TriMet bus depot. The car had blown through a light pole, hit a tree, busted through the fence, and rolled into a parked bus. Fire crews pulled out two teenagers, a 19-year-old driver and a 15-year-old passenger, both with serious injuries but expected to survive. Police say the driver was partially thrown from the car and could have easily died. He's now facing DUII, reckless driving, and reckless endangerment charges. Investigators believe speed was the main culprit. KPTV

Brace yourself, because summer just turned the dial all the way up. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory starting 11 a.m. Monday and running through 11 p.m. Tuesday, with highs in the Portland metro expected to hit the mid-90s, possibly flirting with 100 on Monday. Forecasters say there's at least a 70% chance temperatures clear 90 degrees across the region. Things ease up Wednesday, when highs drop into the upper 80s and low 90s. Officials are urging people to hydrate, skip strenuous outdoor work during peak hours, and check on neighbors who don't have AC. OPB

Skylab astronauts splashed down in the Pacific in 1973 after a record-setting 28-day mission, the longest American spaceflight at the time.

The Willamette is sort of cleaner now, so let’s get in there and have some fun!

by Michael Simpson Contact: [email protected]