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HERE'S TO A HAPPY NEW YEAR

RONEN ZILBERMAN / RZILBERMAN@STARBULLETIN.COM TEMARI Center for Asian & Pacific Arts presented the Kadomatsu and New Year Festival yesterday at Ward Warehouse. Above, Rochelle Li enjoyed making fish prints for good luck in the coming new year. Below, the Rev. Daiya Amano of the Izumo Taishakyo Mission performed a formal Shinto blessing. Other activities at the festival included mochi pounding, a taiko drum performance, Asian and Pacific folk dances, craft demonstrations and kadomatsu arranging. Kadomatsu, an arrangement of bamboo stock and leaves, is a Japanese New Year tradition, made to please the New Year's gods to bring longevity, prosperity and constancy.

BUNDLES OF JOY

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM Kenneth Unten waited for his daughter, Kris Unten, yesterday at Ala Moana Center as her bichon frise dogs -- Camille, left, Caitlin and Carson -- occupied a baby stroller. The dogs are all from the same litter.

DAD AT HAND

DENNIS ODA DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM Kayla Ayala, 1 1/2, had her father, Leon, under her thumbs as they relaxed in a hammock yesterday at Ala Moana Park.