Forks Forum, September 11, 2014

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West End Thunder drags The last WET drag race of the season will be Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 13-14, at the Forks Municipal Airport, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. Nostalgia drag cars are scheduled to appear.

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Arrest made in ‘A’ Road assault

Aaron Maurice Mylan pleaded not guilty last Friday to firstdegree robbery, second-degree assault, unlawful possession of a firearm and theft of a motor vehicle after an Aug. 24 roadside altercation near Forks. Mylan, 23, of Port Angeles faces a three-day trial beginning Oct. 13 in Clallam County Superior Court. He remained in the county jail Saturday with no bond set. A pretrial status hearing is set for Sept. 26. The county Sheriff’s Office said Mylan caught a ride at a Forks gas station and then assaulted the driver with a gun as they drove along Sitkum-Sol Duc Road about 2 miles outside the West End city.

Law enforcement converged near the scene of an Aug. 24 assault on the “A” Road. Photo Lonnie Archibald

Eyewitness A witness told police of seeing the blood-covered driver fall out of the pickup truck before Mylan drove into a ditch, fled the vehicle and ran down the road with what appeared to be a gun, authorities said. The victim was identified as Diamond Muller in court records. Muller was treated and discharged from Forks Community Hospital. Mylan, who was recently released from prison, was arrested Aug. 25 for unrelated state Department of Corrections violations. Surveillance footage from the 76 gas station in Forks was used to link Mylan to the assault, authorities said. Clallam County Sheriff’s Detective John Keegan said Mylan produced a handgun and ordered the driver out of the truck. When the driver refused, Mylan struck the victim on the head and face with the gun, which discharged during the tussle, according to Keegan.

The day Stephenie Meyer came to town

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Beaver, Forks and the Washington State DNR firemen were called out Sunday afternoon for this one-acre fire located near mile marker 208 between Bear Creek and Snider. The house was saved but a pumphouse was lost in the fire which came close to reaching timber on the north side of U.S. Highway 101. Photo by Lonnie Archibald

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It all started when Staci Chastain encouraged her Facebook followers to start slipping Stephenie Meyer hand-written invites, at book signings, to attend the 2013 Stephenie Meyer Day in Forks. The day before Stephenie Meyer Day, Meyer called the Visitor Center to talk to Marcia Bingham but Bingham was busy. When she called back and Bingham took the call, the woman on the phone said she was Stephenie Meyer and with that Bingham said, “Yeah right.” But it really was her. Meyer explained that she wanted to come the next day but didn’t want to make a big deal out of it. Meyer was just going to show up but her husband told her she probably See meyer, page 3


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