FORKS — A three-day celebration of vampires, teen love and everything else related to Twilight will culminate today with the cutting of Bella’s birthday cake.
The fictional heroine of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novels — and the movies created from them — would turn 23 on Tuesday if she were a real person.
To mark Bella Swan’s Sept. 13 birthday, the organizers of Forks’ annual Stephenie Meyer Day — which was actually three days of events that began Friday — will cut a birthday cake and throw a party at 1 p.m. today at the Stephenie Meyer Day stage in the vendor area along Spartan Avenue between A and D streets.
In Twilight, the first of the four-novel series, Bella moved to Forks as a high school junior and met Edward Cullen and his “family” of vampires.
In subsequent books — New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn — her romance with Edward and other adventures are portrayed.
Today, several events will begin at 10 a.m.
■ The vendors fair reopens on Spartan Avenue.
■ A Twi-fashion exhibit, which will go on until 3 p.m., starts at the Bank of America, 481 S. Forks Ave.
■ A meet-and-greet with “Alice Cullen” will be hosted at Twilight Central/Leppell’s Flowers and Gifts, 130 S. Spartan Ave., from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
■ A Twilight scavenger hunt will begin at Leppell’s. That will end at 1 p.m.
At noon, a group photo is planned at the sign at Forks High School, 191 Spartan Ave.
A book-signing for Images of America: Forks — written by Larry Burtness and Forks Forum editor Chris Cook with photos from the Forks Timber Museum — will be from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. today at the Chinook Pharmacy, 11 S. Forks Ave.
All day in Tillicum Park, the Forks Post Office will offer a special cancellation, “Vampire Station,” while the LaPush Post Office will have a special cancellation, “Treaty Line Station.”
Also today in Forks, the 27th annual West End Invitational Co-ed Softball Tournament will continue all day at Tillicum Park. A memorial service on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 is planned at 9 a.m. at the Forks Transit Center, 551 S. Forks Ave., and at 10 a.m., the final West End Thunder drag races of the season will start at the Forks Municipal Airport.
