Top 10 things not to ask Harley riders:

10) Does your bike have a name?

9) Who weighs more, you or the Harley?

In the foggy cool, the crowd watching the Seattle Cossacks this evening needed a little pick-me-up, and the entertaining biker acrobats delivered, as always:

Top 10 Sun and Surf 2010 events:
All in or around Convention Center; all times subject to change
10) Tattoo Contest, Friday, 3 p.m.
9) Bands in parking lot, Saturday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
8 T90 motorcycle drill team, Saturday, 3 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m.
7) Beer Garden (every day from 2 p.m. on)

From the official event Web site (all times subject to change):

FRIDAY
10:00 am- 6:00 pm Sun and Surf Merchandise
10:00 am Poker Run – Courtesy of South Sound HOG  wristband holders only start and finish at the Ocean Shores Convention Center
10:00 am -until  close (time TBA)  Beer Garden and Calender Fireman BBQ (for Sun Charities)  in front of the Ocean Shores Convention Center  ** Must be 21 years old to attend

12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Band – BLACK STONE   on stage in front of the Convention Center

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tattoo Contest on stage in front of the Convention Center

Seattle Times/AP story

BELL, Calif. — The City Council in Bell, a blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles, on Thursday met to ask three administrators whose salaries total more than $1.6 million to resign or face possible firing.

The officials include Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo, who earns $787,637 a year — nearly twice the pay of President Obama, who earns $400,000 — for overseeing one of the poorest towns in Los Angeles County.

The others are Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia, who makes $376,288 a year, and Police Chief Randy Adams, whose annual salary of $457,000 is 50 percent more than that of Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck.

Rizzo was hired at an annual salary of $72,000 a year in 1993, and the council rapidly increased that amount over the years. His most recent raise boosted his salary more than $84,000 a year.

Pre-Harley Ocean Shores, courtesy of Gary Iversen:

The term “lid lift” has not been used on the Library issue, as city officials say that last year with the EMS lid lift vote, people got it confused with the Street LID. But the Ocean Shores Library levy vote is another “lid lift,” meaning 50.1 percent of the vote is needed to pass. (Timberland’s 2009 levy vote was also a lid lift). If the Library levy passes, it means voters OK “lifting” the current $2.09 per thousand to $2.31 per thousand.  Here is how the Washington State Department of Revenue web site explains what a lid lift is:

Q.  How do levy lid lifts affect property taxes?

Local taxing districts can propose that voters “lift” the 1 percent limit on annual levy increases so the district can collect a higher levy rate, up to the maximum rate for that jurisdiction. 

looking forward to is:

a) the new beer garden at the Convention Center

b) the Harleys-around-the-Roundabout spectacle

c) the first “Miss Sun and Surf Contest”

d) Hell’s Belles (all-female AC/DC cover band) concert at the casino Saturday night

e) Seattle Cossacks stunt bikers

f) the Hoquiam-to-Ocean Shores Memorial Parade on Saturday morning

g) Sunday afternoon, when they ride out of town and return Ocean Shores to its quiet, peaceful normal self

h) other