This week’s “Locals Only” applies LID logic to dining:

Welcome to the LID Café, an upscale Ocean Shores eatery, with some progressive options and pricings, modeled after the highly successful Ocean Shores Street LID.
Let’s look in:
At table 1, an active young couple orders a “light meal.” He gets a small piece of broiled salmon, and she orders a Caesar’s Salad.
“Excellent choice,” says this table’s waiter, Mack. “Chef Pansear’s speciality.”

Anyone who heads over there, please send me a photo!

*Street LID, the Process: Q & A, FAQ’s, excerpts from “Summary of Special Benefits”

*A Summery weekend (finally!) at the beach

*City Council meeting costs

*Finance Director checks out

*Kaltheen Wolgemuth’s “Return of the Pelicans”

*NCN Top 10: With guest Top 10-er Art Wuerth

*Locals Only: Chef Pansear and the LID Cafe

The beach:

The Library (Kids Pet Party):

With just 4 more “Reject” votes than “Approve” after the first count, what if the Ocean Shores Library lid lift/levy ends in a tie?
Asked that question, county auditor Vern Spatz responded by quoting state law for lid lift votes: “A simple majority is required for approval.”
Meaning there must be at least 1 more “Approve” vote than “Reject” vote. If it’s a dead heat, the lid lift/levy does not pass. Hundreds of votes are still to be counted, with the next announcement coming at 5 p.m. Friday.
Some facts:

• Ocean Shores ballots mailed out: 3,248
• Ocean Shores ballots counted on Monday: 1,416
• Potential number of O.S. ballots to be counted: 1,832
• Ballots turned in to Convention Center: 300-plus

The vote, thus far:
Approve 756 (49.87%)
Reject 760 (50.13%)

Excerpts of a press conference by the No. 3 candidate who came in  third, this morning, on my voicemail: “Our objectives were raising maximum hell . . . I honestly feel that I got my money’s worth, and created as much trouble with the communists as I possibly could.”

Is this critter photographed by Becky Baker near the casino really a Penguin, who wandered here as the result of some bizarre weather pattern (certainly a summer cool enough for a polar bird!), or . . . .

Home-made sign sloganeer Pancho Villa scores 286 votes (7.3%), not enough as Republican Herb Welch (42.4%) and Democrat Al Carter (50.2%) will go toe-to-toe for Carter’s Grays Harbor County Commissioner No. 3 seat. Complete results, including Senate, Congress and other races.

On the first count, 760 votes to Reject, 756 votes to Approve the lid lift/levy for the Ocean Shores Library. Another 300-plus ballots dropped off today at the Convention Center, as well as those mailed today, have yet to be counted. Next count: Friday, 5 p.m.

Gary Iversen, and a couple unlikely friends:

Tony Byers, of Sadie cooling her paws: