A Look Back …This week in the Forks Forum

Published 1:30 am Thursday, September 11, 2025

This week in 2000 the Clallam Bay/Sekiu chamber of commerce had voted to put the incorporation of the two towns on the ballot in November. Organizers stated that the incorporation would help with getting much needed grant funding for the communities. The Peninsula College Forks Extension Site, downtown Forks at 71 N. Forks Ave., was planning a Grand Opening. The closing of three longtime Forks businesses was sad news for the community; Pay and Save Foods, Ulin’s Auto Parts and the Chevron gas station had all recently closed. It had been a productive Day of Caring in Forks, as volunteers, that included Anita and Audrey (photo), did work at Forks Abuse, Sunshine and Rainbows, and the Teen Center.

Fifty years ago this week the Forks High School Building Class was helping put shakes on the new VFW Hall (photo). In city council news the council heard a presentation on a proposed shopping center to be built near the radio station (Klahndike and Cedar Ave.). In the Howard’s Music store ad the top song of the week was …Ballroom Blitz. Machine shop owner John Nagel had died.

In 1968 it was very sad news that Marine Cpl. Douglas G. Foster had been killed in action in Vietnam (photo). The United Good Neighbor campaign was officially underway with area Chairman Ginger Haberman and Forks Mayor Earl Kennedy exchanging a sticker in a front page photo. The Spartans had opened the season with a big win of 45-6 over Moclips.

This week in 1953 it was reported that James Whitehead of Forks had married a girl, Catherine Martin, from Oakland, California. A Labor Day horse show had been held in Warner’s field. In the jumping event Glenn King and his horse came in first. Donald Gentry had won the pie eating contest.