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Twilight Fans Welcome to Bella’s Birthday/Stephenie Meyer Day 2010 Scenes from the 2009 Celebration
Highlights of the celebration included a Twilight trivia contest, a Twilight look-a-like contest (above), a Bella’s Birthday cake cutting (left), group photos at Tillicum Park (below), breakfast at the Forks Congregational Church, a Bella Likes to Read book sale put on by the Friends of the Forks Library and much more. Two Twilight concerts were held in Forks on Saturday night, with Dazzled by Twilight bringing life back to the Top of the Rock in the former Vagabond building with two concerts by the Mitch Hansen Band, and Leppell’s hosting The Twilight Girls Band.
The Forks High School ASB organization under the leadership of advisor Brenda King raised funds by charging $3 per fan for an in-depth tour of high school classrooms and buildings. Here (top right) Spartan junior and ASB president Devon Chastain takes a break from leading a tour.
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Forks Chamber of Commerce presents
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Bella’s Birthday Stephenie Meyer Day 2010 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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Bella’s Ball - Twilight Lounge
Saturday, September 11, 2010 8-11am 500 East Division 374-5412
Forks Chamber of Commerce
1411 So. Forks Ave. 374-2531
9am-1pm 10am-6pm 11am Noon 12:30pm 1pm 1:30pm 2pm 2:30pm 3:30pm 8:30pm 9-11pm
Bella’s Birthday Breakfast - Congregational Church $10/person (Spartan Ave. across from high school) Bella Loves Books Book sale – Forks Memorial Library Vendors – Tillicum Park, Forks **Tour of Forks High School - Forks High School **Tour of Forks High School - Forks High School Music in the Park, Tillicum Park, Forks **Tour of Forks High School - Forks High School Mayor of Forks Proclamation - Tillicum Park Group photo – Tillicum Park Twilight character look-alike contest – Tillicum Park Decorated Twilighter car judging – Forks Memorial Library Bonfire/Quileute Storytelling - First Beach in La Push (Quileute Tribe) Mitch Hansen Band – Twilight Lounge - Dazzled by Twilight Free admission. All ages welcome. **Fee of $3 each
Sunday, September 12, 2010 10am-4:30pm 11am 1pm 2pm 2:30pm 494 So. Forks Ave. 374-3311
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Twilighter’s Intro to Forks Author Stephenie Meyer discovered Forks and nearby West End towns and settings during an Internet search she made while writing the first book in her “Twilight” series. She sought a rainy, misty, foggy place as the backdrop to her story of Edward, a handsome Forks High
School boy whose family happen to be vampires, and his classmate and girlfriend, Bella. Stephenie traveled with her sister Emily to Forks in 2004 after she began writing “Twilight.” In the Forks’ section of her Web site [stepheniemeyer.com] she says she was afraid the actual
town would be a disappointment. Instead, she writes, “Being in Forks was the most incredible experience... it was eerily similar to my imaginings. Walking down Main Street, shopping at the Thriftway (I still have that receipt!), driving up side streets until we found a house that could have been Charlie’s,
and then turning the car around only to find a beat-up, once-red, early-fifties Chevy truck parked across the road… The word surreal gets overused a lot, but this really was like walking around inside of a dream.” As the popularity of Stephenie’s book grew following its release in
Bella’s 4th Annual Birthday Breakfast
Congregational Church Across from Forks High School Saturday Sept. 11th • 8 a.m.-11 a.m. • $10 per person Includes your choice of any two crepes: • Bella’s Strawberry Crepe with Whip Cream • Edward’s Apple Crepe with Whip Cream • Jacob’s Blackberry Crepe with Whip Cream AND Two links of sausage and beverage with fruit garnish Start off Bella’s Birthday with this delicious breakfast and help our church repair fund at the same time.
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October, 2005, avid fans of Stephenie’s began making regular visits to Forks, surprising local residents and businesses in the logging town with their knowledge of the area, and their love of “Twilight,” the book’s characters and of its setting. Unlike the imaginary characters conjured up in Stephenie’s imagination, Forks High School, Forks City Hall, Thriftway-Forks Outfitters, LaPush, First Beach, Forks Library and other locales in “Twilight” are real places, with “Twilight” adding a magic touch to the rural logging town. Visitors delight in completing their “pilgrimage” to Forks and the West End, finding a wide range of accommodations and unique souvenirs to take home, and a warm welcome. Forks is the wettest town in all the lower 48 states, and a “Twilight” visitor will likely get to experience the misty beauty of the rainforest atmosphere of Forks, and the mysterious, dramatic Pacific Coast at LaPush. While enjoying their “Twilight” time in Forks, visitors will also find great day-hikes on the coast and in the Olympic National Park, fine restaurants that feature locally-caught Pacific seafoods, a timber museum and a wealth of “Twilight” lore and information available at the Forks Chamber of Commerce.
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Forks’ contributions to the filming of Twilight films “Twilight” film director Catherine Hardwicke (left) walks out a scene at First Beach in LaPush during a scouting trip made in January 2008. The moviemaker was unable to return to LaPush, or Forks, to film scenes. No actual footage of Forks or LaPush appears in the film. Forks High School was replicated at Kalama High School, four hours to the south. The bulk of exterior filming took place at locations in Oregon. Mockups of the Forks welcome sign and the Spartan sign on Spartan Avenue were replicated for the film. The film’s prop department rented actual Forks varsity jackets from Forks High School student athletes. For “New Moon” filming, Summit Entertainment chose Vancouver, B.C. and Vancouver Island. The “New Moon” prop department was supplied with dozens of photos of Forks and LaPush by the Forks Forum. A gift of signed “Twilight” star photos and a note stating the photos were used frequently by the prop department arrived following British Columbia filming. Requests for use releases for many local business signs and organization logos were also sent.
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Twilight author Stephenie Meyer reads from her book “New Moon” during a celebration held in her honor in July 2006 at Tillicum Park in Forks. The seed for the celebration was a call to Forks librairan Theresa Tetreau who organized a book signing for the author in Forks in the days when the “Twilight” book series was beginning to take off. (Lonnie Archibald photo)
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Twilight stops in Port Angeles The downtown section of Port Angeles is a popular stop for Twilight fans heading out to Forks. Port Angeles is mentioned in author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga series. There’s Twilight gear and souvenir shopping at Dazzled by Twilight’s Port Angeles store, great Twilight gifts plus a wide assortment of other gift items at Necessities & Temptations, and ‘in’ fashions at Twisted, all in downtown Port Angeles. Fly Kenmore Air to Seattle for an easy trip to and from the Twilight sites.
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