84 TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE
| JULY/AUGUST 2016
Bryce Word of San Francisco, son of Marina Ho
of Honolulu and Clearwater native Howard
Word of Maui, and grandson of Peggy Word
of Clearwater, married Olympic fencing
Silver Medalist Hanna Thompson, Esq. of San
Francisco at his mother’s Malaekahana Beach
House on Oahu’s North Shore in Hawaii.
and Clear Sky restaurants, toured and
visited his relatives in Ireland before
heading for Italy.....Barbara and Elliott
Wiser, the president and general
manager of WTSP Channel 10 in
St. Petersburg, took their daughter Ashley
on a two-week tour of Ireland and
Scotland to celebrate her graduation.....
Kelly Schmidt of Dunedin and Barb
Chapman of Belleair cruised from
Dubai, United Arab Emirates to Monte
Carlo, Monaco.....Mary and John
Valukas of the Villages, Judy and Bill
Holmes of Madeira Beach and Anita
and Carl Solar of Largo traveled from
Budapest to Prague during a seven-day
river cruise.....Mary and Peter
Krueziger, partners in Bon Appétit
Restaurant and Café Alfresco in
Dunedin, took a river cruise from
Nuremberg, Germany, through Austria
to Budapest.....Sonja and Tony
Nicholson of Winter Park took a three
hour helicopter trip of the entire country
of Israel.....Barb and Fred McCoy of
St. Petersburg visited Italy, where they
once lived, before cruising to Barcelona,
Spain.....Sandy McLaughlin and her
husband, former ABC Action News
anchor Brendan, of Tampa have traveled
to Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as to
Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands
since his retirement.....George Ann
Bissett, president and CEO of the
Dunedin Fine Art Center, and her
husband Colin, executive director of the
North Pinellas Cultural Alliance, who
live in Dunedin, explored Morocco.....
Melanie and John Toppe of
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