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Chillingworths and
Apple spice Breeden,
Neumeier wedding

Wedding coordinator Beth Bowlen of Social Butterfly knew what to do when Apple Corp. officials wanted to film a December wedding in Hawaii as a marketing piece for a new product. Beth put them in contact with Laurie Callies. Laurie's son Lindsey Breeden and Tiffany Neumeier were getting married Dec. 29 at the beachfront Bayer Estate. So when the day came, a seven-member crew from L.A. filmed the wedding. Puamana performed at the event just as the group did at Lindsey's baby luau 24 years ago. Laurie is a member of the Chillingworth family and the Chillingworth Men sang the "Aloha Song" to welcome the bride's California family. Then "Hilo March" was played as guests formed the seated outrigger canoe position on the ground and "rowed" as "coxswain" Mert Chillingworth led them in a raucous, hilarious paddle. Laurie's activity continued as she marked a birthday Thursday ...

Burl joins Ollie North again on 'War Stories'

The Star-Bulletin's Burl Burlingame teams up again with Oliver North on his "War Stories" program on KHON tomorrow at 3 p.m. The show is about the confinement of Japanese-Americans in World War II and the heroic AJAs of the 442nd and Military Intelligence Service. Burl also reports on the Japanese pilot that landed on Niihau during the Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941 attack ... Eran Kennedy married Coast Guardsman Tom Feik at the Outrigger Canoe Club Monday afternoon. The bride is from Canada and her family and friends flew in for the wedding. Eran heads real-estate ad sales for the Star-Bulletin ...

Michelle Wie had the crowd with her in the opening round of the Sony Open Thursday at Waialae but the wind took away her game. She wound up with a 75 after her putt on the last hole just missed the cup, bringing a collective groan from the big gallery. A deadline kept me from reporting on whether she had an outstanding round yesterday to make the cut and is playing today. I hope she did ... It's great that Castle High grad Dean Wilson got in as an alternate and fired a 1-under-par 69, one of only 29 in the field of 144 to shoot under par Thursday ... Defending Sony champ Ernie Els, 2000 winner Paul Azinger and Retief Goosen, ranked fourth in the world, swung into Compadres on Taco Tuesday for dinner. That put Compadres' golfing G.M. John Langan on top of the world ...


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Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of people, places and things every Wednesday and Saturday. E-mail him at bwood@starbulletin.com






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