Go West!: The Boathouse, Sustainable Seattle and the West Coast Port Blockade

tokyo stomp. by batakbeatrix from our Flickr pool.

Every Friday, we post the week's happenings in Seattle's island town.

Here's what happened in West Seattle this week:

• The Porterhouse Pub appears to have closed, leaving papered-over windows where 24 taps of West Coast beer used to be.
• Media darling West Seattle Tool Library has yet again been honored, this time with a Sustainable Seattle award.
• West Seattle breaks a little more toward in favor of recent liquor initiative 1183 than the rest of the city, but less so than the Eastside.
• Marty R. Richardson has been sentenced to 34 months in prison for the beating of a 65-year-old West Seattle woman.
• Downtown Emergency Service Center's Delridge homeless housing project passed an early review by the all-volunteer Southwest Early Design Review board yesterday.
• Cutesy-named doggy "playcare" establishment Stella Ruffington's is under new management.
• PBS NewsHour discussed West Seattle rain gardens.

And Coming Up:

• The Seacrest Boathouse will be under new management soon, opening many possibilities for its future. These possibilities include Marination Mobile, which some are skeptical of -- and speaking as a fan of Marination Mobile, and a vegetarian, it would be kind of weird to not have fish and chips or cheap, shitty sandwiches there. IT'S PART OF THE FISHING.
• The Occupy movement's West Coast Port Blockade includes two rallies meeting at the Spokane Street Fishing Area under the West Seattle Bridge on December 12.
• West Seattle KOMO is searching for West Seattle's most interesting people! The submission deadline is December 23.
• December 24: the anniversary of Jeremy Peck's disappearance. The community, and those who have ever been connected to the West Seattle community, are still shaken.
• It's not too early to start planning: the Hi-Yu float theme for 2012 is Secret Garden.