(Photo added 9:31 am – Cove Park dig [see below] begins; separate update later!)

From the WSB West Seattle Events calendar:

COOKIE SALES, DAY 2: Girl Scouts’ cookie sales continue; the online “cookie locator” shows you where and when.

PLANT ADOPTION: Cove Park “big dig,” come help save plants before Pump Station project moves in, 9 to noon, just north of Fauntleroy ferry dock (9005 Fauntleroy Way SW). Bring your own tools; experienced gardeners will be on hand to help you salvage ground covers, shrubs, perennials, or even a small tree.

PURIM STORYTIME: At Kol HaNeshamah, 6115 SW Hinds, 9:30 am. The PJ Library Storytime at Kol HaNeshamah Congregation. Erik Lawson is guest musician, with PJ Library manager Amy Paquette as storyteller. We will be reading a Purim story.

NEED KNITTING HELP? Knitting class for both beginners and project help, 9:30 – 11:30 at C&P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor), with instructor Marguerite Lynch.

REPUBLICAN CAUCUSES: GOP gatherings here and statewide are 10 am-noon. Sign in starting at 9:30. Must be a registered voter. Major site in West Seattle is WS High School (3000 California SW); for southern West Seattle and beyond, at Evergreen Campus (830 SW 116th) in White Center. Details, links, and more in our Friday preview.

WHALE OF A DISPLAY: Remember the Arroyos gray whale from 2010? Its skeleton makes its public debut as an educational exhibit at MaST Center, whose executive director Dr. Kaddee Lawrence is a West Seattleite; here’s our recent preview of the exhibit, 10 am-2 pm, 28203 Redondo Beach Dr. S. in Des Moines.

GRIEFSHARE RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP: Hosted by Grace Church, for those recovering from the loss of a loved one. 10:00 to 11:30 at 10323 28th Ave. SW. Onetime cost for participating in ongoing series once or multiple times is $15 (for a journal).

LONGHOUSE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Duwamish Longhouse‘s 3rd Anniversary Open House, 11 am – 3 pm, free. Celebrate the building of the first longhouse in Seattle in 110 years, the home of Chief Seattle’s Duwamish people; programming includes admission to “Peter Boome: Salish Connections,” screening of “Princess Angeline” at 1 pm, and more, 4705 W. Marginal Way SW.

MOVEMENT COURSE: At Highland Park Improvement Club (12th/Holden), six-week intensive course focusing on somatics/movement imagery/voicework and dance ethnology. It will be open to all walks of life and adults can bring their children if they need to. It will be based on movement exploration through storytelling, dance techniques such as contemporary, modern, butoh and West African (yet, one does not have to be a professional dancer to take the class, any sort of mover or lover of movement is welcome). Saturdays for Six Weeks, starting March 3rd-April 7th 11 am-1 pm. $15 a class. Pre-registration required – contact info: miayogi@gmail.com/206-683-4414.

LOCAL STUDENTS’ EVENT OPENS: “Becoming Us – Thru the Eyes of Immigrants,” 2-3 pm. History House of Greater Seattle, 790 North 34th in Fremont, free. Produced by students from Chief Sealth International High School and St. Christopher’s Academy in West Seattle, documenting how immigration has helped make Seattle the city that it is today.

OCCUPY WEST SEATTLE: The group’s next “General Assembly” meeting is this afternoon, West Seattle (Admiral) Library, 2 pm.

SCHOOL FUNDRAISER: Chief Sealth PTSA auction, The Hall at Fauntleroy, 5 pm

WILDLIFE WALK: Owling in Lincoln Park with naturalist Stewart Wechsler, 5:30 pm, details here.

STORYTELLING AT THE LONGHOUSE: At the Duwamish Longhouse: “Native Oral, Visual & Digital Storytelling for Social Justice,” 6-8 pm, free. Program/Reception, Keeping the Earth Power Coming, Native oral, visual and digital storytelling for Social Justice, hosted by the Inclusion and Justice Committee of Antioch University’s PhD in Leadership and Change Program. Includes stories by local Duwamish youth about the Duwamish River. 4705 W. Marginal Way SW.

FOOD HANDLER PERMIT CLASSES FOR TEENS: Free at Southwest Teen Life Center for ages 13-19, 7 pm, 1st Saturday each month. 2801 SW Thistle.

PARTY AT THE FEEDBACK: Joe Dredd‘s “Meet Your Facebook Friends” Party, 8 pm at Feedback Lounge (WSB sponsor).

‘ROCKY’: Monthly “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” shadow casting and all, at Admiral Theater, tonight at midnight.