Helicopter jumps, groomzillas and a hunt for Captain Kirk are just some of the adventures confronting Holly and Jason Myers in the first season of “Happily Ever Faster.”
The show, which premieres at 10 tonight with back-to-back episodes on TLC, Comcast Channel 38, follows the couple as they stage speedy but classy weddings at Chapel of the Flowers in Las Vegas.
TLC ordered six episodes of “Happily Ever Faster” following the June pilot, and Holly, a former Vancouver resident and 2000 Prairie High School graduate, hopes the show does well enough in the ratings to be picked up for another season. She said her family in Vancouver will be watching tonight.
No matter what the future holds, though, she’s happy to have had the chance to show people what Chapel of the Flowers is all about.
“I hope this will help people see that you can have an amazing wedding in Las Vegas,” said Holly, 27.
Ex-Vancouver resident creates mecca for ‘Twilight’ fans
Former Vancouver social worker Annette Root picked up the first “Twilight” book in the summer of 2008 and felt an immediate connection to Stephenie Meyer’s characters.
“It’s not the finest literature I’ve ever read, but it speaks to me, and I love it,” said Root, 47.
She and her husband, Tim, have five adopted children, and she relates to the books’ themes of chosen families and sacrifice.
She loves the books so much that she relocated to Forks to start a store devoted to the series.
Dazzled by Twilight began in November 2008 as a 1,000-square-foot space and has since quadrupled in size. It includes beach, forest, castle and dungeon segments, all settings from the books.
“The whole vision I had was that you would feel as though you were walking into the books,” Root said of her store, which was recently named business of the year by the Forks Chamber of Commerce.
La Center man disproves docs
Doctors told Anthony Davis of La Center that he would never walk again after his spine was injured in a car crash four years ago.
Yet he ran 50 meters during the National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic in San Diego this year.
This week, the 27-year-old is in Oklahoma trying out for the U.S. Sitting Volleyball National Team. He rows three times a week at Vancouver Lake to train in hopes of qualifying for the 2012 Paralympic Games. He also volunteers as a football coach at La Center High School.
“I’m just a sports person,” Davis said.
Davis spent five years in the Navy as a search-and-rescue swimmer, serving in the Iraq war. He was in a car accident in 2005 on Interstate 5 near Modesto, Calif., on his way home from San Diego.
“For about two years after the accident, I was in a wheelchair,” Davis said. “I decided I didn’t want to be in a wheelchair anymore. I started walking with a cane. I got stronger.”
He runs without a cane, but his lap in San Diego took great effort.
“I ran around the entire track without stopping,” Davis said. “That was a big accomplishment.”
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