Winners 2021 Newport Living and Lifestyles Annual Influencer Awards #NLLAiA

Newport Living and Lifestyles 2021 Annual Influencer Award Winners with host Christon Gibson SHP

Newport Living and Lifestyles 2021 Annual Influencer Award Winners with host Christon Gibson SHP

AND THE WINNERS ARE… ⚓
We were inundated with nominations for the Newport Living and Lifestyles 2021 Annual Influencer Awards… and with good reason.
There are SO MANY inspiring trailblazers in Newport County who continue to work tirelessly every day to give back to our City by the Sea—and it is an absolute honor to be able to showcase just a few of them here, as the worthy winners that they are. ?
THANK YOU for submitting your nominations for outstanding philanthropic initiatives, efforts, and contributions. Here are just some of the ways you described these incredible nominees:
“A creative force and a positive force for a better, more cultural Newport!”
“Always available to help a friend or neighbor.”
“Easily summed up in one word: SELFLESS.”
“Committed to Newport on so many levels.”
This is only a small portion of people that make our community what it is, and we cannot wait to recognize even more of you at the 2022 Awards.
Please join me in congratulating our winners in the comments below. ?? ?? ??
Drew A Carey, PhD is the CEO of INSPIRE Environmental and a scientist who is a fierce advocate for our oceans, with 30 years of experience addressing issues in marine science, environmental monitoring, and marine policy. Drew takes particular pride in INSPIRE’s culture of innovation, quality, and compassion and its commitment to workplace diversity and inclusion. Drew Carey     Inspire Environmental
Jared Vance is the Principal of Rogers High School and an educational leader whose focus has always been students FIRST—from ensuring his students had internet access during the pandemic, to going out of his way to get food to the families who need it most. Jared Vance Rogers High School
Elizabeth Kahane is a fine art photographer and philanthropist recognized for her dedication to supporting several local institutions, charitable causes, and foundations—including the big public exhibition, free to the public during the pandemic to support the Historic Spring Park, Art & Newport, The Audrain Automobile Museum, Newport Irish Museum, Newport Art Museum, The Preservation Society of Newport County, the Newport Historical Society, and the Newport Hospital. Elizabeth Ann Kahane     Historic Newport Spring       Audrain Automobile Museum
Pauline Perkins-Moye grew up in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Newport and has been tirelessly dedicated to her mission to fight for the less fortunate, as director of Resident Services of Newport Housing Authority, a member of the Newport County NAACP, Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless, Newport Partnership for Families, a church and Newport Hospital volunteer, and more. She has crusaded against injustices in housing, food and employment. Newport Housing Authority
Theresa Guzman Stokes is the President and founder of the 1696 Heritage Group, a historical consulting firm dedicated to helping persons and institutions of color to increase their knowledge and access to the light of truth of their unique American heritage. She currently serves as the Managing Director for the RI Black Heritage Society and Executive Director for Historical Writers of America. @1969 heritage      Rhode Island Black Heritage Society – RIBHS           Historical Writers of America
William Heydt is the artist behind the “Newportant” art series, which has portrayed hundreds of Newport residents over the years in situations when they are giving back to the community. He holds art classes for local residents, encourages artists of all ages to take paint to canvas, and is “always available to help a friend or neighbor.” William Heydt
Thank you to our sponsors, who graciously contributed an unbelievable amount of time, effort, and resources.

Lucky Dog Resort’s Cocktails and Commands event at The Viking Hotel

Dog owners cherished this canine conscious café manners class, “Cocktails and Commands “, offered by Lucky Dog Resort, a luxury Dog Resort and daycare social club and Eye to Eye Dog Training. learning how to “speak dog” and demand better behavior while fireside patio dining at Hotel Viking. $757 worth of prizes were handed out! Def stay tuned for the next event or reach them direct for sitting and training! @GambitGibson loves Lucky dog resort!

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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles

I’m Christon and we are here at the Hotel Viking on the patio at One Bellevue,

for a special event

“Canines and Cocktails”

that Laurie Ruttenberg has put together

I would love for you to introduce your ideas and yourselves

Tell us all about this really special dog friendly event.

Sure! Thank you Christon.

I’m here with Kim Cipolla of Eye to Eye Dog Training.

Kim and I actually came up with this idea and the lovely Hotel Viking is hosting for us today.

What we are going to be doing today is a cafe manners class called

“Cocktails and Commands” and Kim is gonna be taking us through ways to make our

dogs behave a little bit better when we want to take them out and just enjoy you

know a patio dining experience.

Sounds good to me!

because they are so food frenzied, right?

so are you gonna help with how to make the dog unfrenzied somehow?

A little bit, I mean everyone’s dogs are such big parts of our lives now.

Everyone wants to take their dogs everywhere.

We want to keep them safe. We want everyone to have a great time.

That’s really the idea with this class,

is so that you can take your dog somewhere and

know it’s going to be a relaxed experience and not stressful for anyone.

How to keep them calm around distractions and exciting things,

like food, and other dogs and people.

Some dogs just think that they should meet everyone.

We also want them to have manners, so that is the idea.

That’s true, just like children!

Maybe one day in the near future we’ll be able to take a dog to the grocery store?

I see dogs in the grocery store all the time!

What? I got a know these grocery stores !

We look forward to the training. How many people are you guys expecting to see at this training?

I think we have about 40 today, so we are looking at about 40 dogs and their “Pawrents”.

Here to learn some manners.

thank you so much ladies I look forward to seeing more about your training.

Thank you!

Thanks for coming, my name is Laurie Ruttenberg and I own Lucky Dog Resort.

A luxury dog resort and daycare social club in Middletown Rhode Island.

First I would like to thank the Hotel Viking for hosting this. It is such a beautiful place.

Kim, I’ve known for years now. Kim has been working with their dogs and their humans for 10 years,

and has extensive experience with all kinds of dogs,

all kinds of sizes, temperaments, etcetera.

Her focus and I’ve seen her do this

is on developing the relationship between the dog and their handler

through the use of clear and consistent cues and body language.

She emphasizes rewarding good behavior and

here’s the key everybody,

ignoring bad behavior,

by redirecting those undesirable behaviors

Kim shows us all how to communicate with our dogs effectively through this type

of communication so it can help achieve our goals.

When things start to get crazy or you see a parade of dogs coming the street

start with your attention queue.

Until your dog is focused on you

it’s gonna be hard for them to hear or pay attention to any thing else that you signal to them.

The way we hold our leash makes a huge difference to how we’re communicating with our dog

If we have it wrapped really tight and we’re holding it up high,

we are sending a lot of tension down the leash and as soon as we do that

our dogs go into alert mode. What’s gonna happen? They’re on alert.

Instead we can signal to them, nope we’re just going for a stroll, by keeping

our arm nice and straight and holding it close to them

to signal to them they can stay close without being stressed out.

Especially here in a patio, right ?

We need to maneuver some tight spaces so

they can be next to us, but be very calm.

Has everybody gotten a little blue ticket

and filled it out and had us take the other one? yes? okay great !

Let me tell you about the prizes that you could win today.

The first is a private training session with you and your pup with

Kim Cipolla of Eye to Eye Dog Training at Lucky Dog Resort, That is a $100 dollar value!

The second one is taking all those skills that you learned here today and

coming to have dinner with your pup on Hotel Viking at One Bellevue also $100 value and

Then lastly the top dog prize here for tonight so if you get it consider yourself lucky,

Consider yourself lucky if you get any of these prizes!

A pet photography gift certificate with Koren worth $575.