Our friend Tim ("Sompeetalay") of Belgian fan site TeeKay-421 reports on their visit to the town of Kessel:


'“This will be a day long remembered” would be Darth Vader’s words about Saturday September 13. On this day, TeeKay-421 announced that the Belgian municipality of Kessel is now known as ‘The Star Wars municipality of Belgium’.

Kessel is a rustic municipality in the province of Antwerp in Belgium. The people of Kessel were enthusiastic when TeeKay uttered the idea to make Kessel ‘The Star Wars municipality of Belgium’. The folks of Rebel Legion Benelux and a lot of (young) fans who were curious or eager to find out what was going to happen, joined the active members of TeeKay, of whom some were wearing their Star Wars-outfits.

Luc Luyten, the local government official of culture in Kessel, opened the happening at the old townhouse of Kessel. Julian De Backer of TeeKay said a few words about Kessel in the Star Wars universe before TeeKay gave the deed to the people of Kessel about the ‘The Star Wars municipality of Belgium’. The press was very interested in our little venture and they photos in front of the townhouse and also before a streetsign of Kessel.

It was a very interesting day and we met a lot of people who were interested in Star Wars and in our fanclub. In 2009 we will return to Kessel for another, larger adventure.

http://www.teekay-421.be/archives/archives.html
Pictures: http://www.teekay-421.be/archives/20080913kessel/20080913kessel.html
Press coverage: http://www.teekay-421.be/events/artikels.html
Coverage from local Belgian television RTV: http://www.rtv-mechelen.be/online_mechelen.html (starts at +/- 8:20)"




Thanks Tim!