A birdie puts Jerry Johnson of Ocean Shores at +3 today, +14 for the Senior Open tournament. With seven holes to go, he can still make the cut, with a strong rally.

Update: Another birdie leaves Jerry four shots off the project cut to make the finals, with four holes to go.

Final update: Jerry finishes strong, tied for 83rd . . . misses the cut but plays a great second round, with +2 score of 72.

The Ocean Shores golfer finishes today’s US Senior Open at a rocky 81, 11 shots over par. He is currently tied for 108th, with 25 golfers still to tee up. If he is on his game tomorrow, Jerry should still have a shot at making the cut for the Saturday-Sunday championship rounds.

After a tense 90 minutes, Ocean Shores police and Grays Harbor deputies took into custody a 26-year-old Ocean Shores man. He was arrested on second degree assault, after allegedly waving a knife and threatening someone who came to his home on Duck Lake Drive (near Ozette Street). When police responded at 10:11 a.m., the resident did not answer the door, or commands to show himself. Off-duty officers and Sheriff’s Department deputies secured the area, with Chief Mike Styner commanding the operation. With a dozen law enforcement officers on the scene, a Sheriff’s K-9 unit (deputy and dog) searched the area, and found the suspect hiding in the marshy area behind the home. Dave McManus of the OSPD said he was arrested at noon, without resistance.

The K-9 team getting ready:

The suspect being placed in an OSPD vehicle:

Rough start for the Ocean Shores golfer at the US Open, with bogeys on 7, 8 and 10, and a double-bogey on 9. But he has plenty of golf left. Here’s his card.

From Det. Chris Iversen, OSPD: “I just received word of counterfeit $50.00 bills being used at two businesses in Aberdeen. Keep your eyes open for these.”

*Four!: Local golf ace Jerry Johnson plays in the U.S Senior Open, which could be a life changer for his family of four

*Poker star: Steve Sanders, a North Beach part-timer, strikes it big again at the World Series of Poker

*Sun and Surf wrap: Harleys rev up the town

*Ocean Shores revenues on the rise

*Officer Aaron Glanz, back on the beach beat

*Mermaid Cove art show, with NCN favorites Linda Parisi and Gary Iversen

*PV revealed (and his “Top Ten Tourist Tortures” list)

That rumbling this morning wasn’t the commenters, it was this decent sized shaker, west of Eugene.

The North Coast News 2009 story on our local poker man, Steve Sanders. To see how he did this year, read this week’s North Coast News:

One card.

Anything but a club . . .

Holding two aces, Steve Sanders was one card away from the ultimate Pyrrhic victory. He could have won the hand . . . and lost his life.

Instead, he lost all his chips, and lived to tell about it.

And, even though he didn’t win the big pot, he still brought $138,658 back to the North Beach, after finishing 54th at the World Series of Poker.

According to Ken Lanfear, director of Public Works who gave a presentation tonight, Ocean Shores is spending the following amount to keep weeds out of “fresh waterways“:

a) $140,000, just like was budgeted from the Storm Drain fund

b) $300,000, because the weeds are really bad this year

c) nothing, because we got State grants to take care of everything

d) nothing, because we spent all the money on lawyers

Answer in this week’s North Coast News . . .

According to Dave Creighton’s statements tonight (at a relatively uneventful City Council meeting), it costs about how much to put on City Council meetings?

a) $500 per meeting, or $12,000 per year

b) $50 per meeting, or $1,200 per year

c) $2,000 per meeting, or $48,000 per year

d) Nothing — you can’t possibly pay for a building (Convention Center) run by City employees, and everyone’s on salary, anyway

Answer in this week’s North Coast News . . .