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As this year winds down for us, I’m reflecting on all of the good things that have happened to me in 2017. For me 2017 was the year I’ve expanded my news business and dog service. In 2017 I’ve come along with my yoga practice (especially my balancing poses). 2017 has taught me to stay true to myself and this year alone I have gained more confidence with my public speaking.  2017 has also taught me to always  Follow your Dreams and Passion! As 2018 begins tomorrow here’s to 12 New Chapters and to taken 365 Chances. In 2018 for me it’s going to be a year of new challenges and to moving more out of my comfort zone. This will be hard at first because I don’t like change but once I get there it will be better. Here’s to a New Year of Never Giving UP! and trying new challenges.  Wishing everyone a healthy and prosperous 2018!

 Hello Everyone,  Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and a few days off to rest. It's been a couple of weeks since I updated about the yoga series I've been taking over the past 5 weeks. On Monday November 27th during my private yoga lesson since I missed week's 4 yoga lesson on new poses I did that lesson yesterday for my private class. The new poses yoga class was working on some new yoga poses ones I haven't heard of or done before. An new poses I did yesterday was a bank bend stretch while using a block for support to make the yoga stretch a little deeper.  Loved learning new poses and the benefits of the poses and yoga. Yoga brings you into the present moment where it's the only place you need to be for the hour. The lesson ended with a nice relaxed mediation by listening to the sound of the beach and the ocean waves. Week 5- Yoga Poses for Wellness-  During this class lesson last night we worked on yoga poses that help to boost our immune syste...

Welcome Everyone, With Thanksgiving right around the corner it has me thinking of what I’m thankful for. I’m very thankful for my family, friends and people that support me.  This year I’m also thankful for the new opportunities I was given during this past year such as expanding my dog sitting going from dog sitting smaller dogs to big dogs which I absolutely Love dog sitting. I’m so grateful for my EG/Warwick News and the followers I have gained, like to help keep the public in the know of what’s happening. Another thing I’m grateful for this year is how far I’ve come with my yoga practice. Before starting yoga I was a little of scared of getting on the mat because I never thought I could do some of the yoga practice. With the help of my yoga classes and teacher I have come along away and it has made me a better person.   I’m Very Thankful for everyone in my life! Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi All,  Hope you all are having a great Tuesday. Last night on Monday my night started off with my private yoga lesson where I worked on poses for better posture, amazing lesson. Then I went to the Gentle Flow yoga class. After that I attended the third yoga series Stretching a bit Deeper. This is the 3rd class out of the 6 week series about yoga. Completed 3 yoga classes in one night broke my record! My insight on last night's yoga lesson for week 3 we worked on poses that helped us to lengthen and stretch out the body. The class started off with a centering and working with the breath and counting into five then releasing the breath at 5 or longer. By doing this breathing the yoga teacher said it helps to calm down the nervous system. When we got stared with class after the warm-up we went over about 25 poses even worked with tennis balls to do some handwork. During last night’s yoga class for stretching a bit deeper we had to hold some of the poses for longer periods, wh...

Hi Everyone, Hope Monday is off to a great start for everyone. Tonight  was the second lesson of the 6 week introduction to yoga classes that I'm taking. Last week I told you about the first yoga session where we learned about the basics of yoga. Tonight for the second series we learned about breathing and how to breathe when we need energy or when we are in stressful situation.  The breathing helps tremendously! We also worked on some basic balance poses. Love this slow place class because I'm getting a better understanding of how to do the yoga poses and fix what I need to adjust while in the pose.  The yoga teacher went over the benefits of yoga such as how it helps, physically and emotionally. Another  benefit that yoga has it helps to build muscle strength in our bodies. Yoga is a place where you let go of what's going and do something to make you feel better. Credit: Yoga with Brenda   Thanks For Reading * Bethany ...

On Monday nights I have started taking a six week beginner introduction to yoga class series that  at Yoga With Brenda is offering. The first class lesson on Monday night was all about the foundations of Yoga and going over the kind of yoga it is. Also during the yoga class that night we worked on poses that helped to lengthen and stretch the our entire body and took it slow. This 6 week introduction to yoga series is good for new or advanced yogi's, this way you can know if you are doing the poses correctly. I'm looking forward to next  Monday class lesson where we will learn about breathing and stretching exercises. Thanks for reading -Bethany 

A year ago today on May 26 th ’2016, I started something brand new for the first time and that was yoga! Last year the first yoga class I took was at Laughing Elephant Yoga and the class   “Basic Yoga Beginner”. When starting out I didn’t know what to expect from a yoga class or if I would even like it, but boy was I wrong I have fallen in love with yoga and enjoy learning new yoga poses, like downward dog, tree pose, and warrior poses. These days I try to do yoga at least 3 times a week if I’m lucky either at Yoga with Brenda or at Laughing Elephant. So far Yoga has taught me to unplug for an hour or so and have time for me and unplugging for me is hard when you're in the media. The Yoga has also challenged me in many different ways it has helped me come out of my comfort zone and over the past year I have meet many new amazing people that I practice with. Some of the yoga classes I have taken are Basic Yoga  Beginner, Gentle flow, Funky flow, S...

Hi Everyone, Welcome back to the BethanyThinggoes blog, first blog post for 2017.  It's been a while since  blogged, but now I’m now back to blogging. For this blog post I’m going to share with you how I got to where I am today!   First off, I’m going to go back but not that far back. I’m going to take you back to 2002 when I started High School, I would be lying if said High School was easy, but it wasn’t it was a struggle for me. The reason why school was always a struggle for me was because I had to overcome challenges with my learning disability and take more time to understand the work. Now of days I’m not ashamed to share with you that while in school I was always in the small group settings and always had an IEP. The small group environment was better for me to learn the work. During my time in High School there were moments when I wanted to quit; the reason why I didn’t quit was because I had a wonderful support system from my parents and family.   A...

Welcome back to everyone that read this blog, haven't written in a while but I'm back now. Last night I started my first class of the Coventry Police Citizen's Class. For the first class we learned about Narcan and then we learned CPR and how to work and AED so now I'm CPR  ceritifed . The class started at 6:30 p.m. and ends at 9:30p.m. Next week for class we get a tour of their police station and some other fun stuff. Stay turned for next weeks blog! Thanks for reading Bethany

During the week 9 of the West Warwick Citizen's Police class we learned about accident reconstruction with Officer  Briand Ketcham  that part was for a half hour. The rest of the class officer Robert Hazard went over DUI's and Officer Clark demonstrated what happens when you have too much to drink. During the class they showed us the arrest package on the paper work that officer's have to fill out when the arrest a person for DUI. The Providence Police brought down their BAT Mobile that the Officer's and other communities use when they are doing RIPTIDE (DUI Patrols) This way they don't have to go back to the station. In the BAT Mobile there are 2 jails cells. We got a tour of this bus during our class. Breathalyzer At scene this is what they read Rights for use at Station where officers have to read. Breathalyzer results Summons Check list. After we toured the BAT Mobile they showed us how they would give some -one a fie...

Last night during the West Warwick Citizens Police Class,we learned about the Special Investigations Unit. This unit is made up by 2 guys and they main issue is dealing with drugs. They work with neighboring towns/cities such as East Greenwich, Warwick, Cranston, and Coventry. They help them out with drug investigations. During the class we learned about what the DEA does and advantages of them, different types of drugs and how they affect people that take them. They also shared with us how the special investigation  unit benefits the town of West Warwick. This team does secret work that people don't know about, this was their names aren't out there. They do a great job tracking down and keeping the streets of WW clean. Thanks for reading

On April 9th and 10th the Purple Cat Winery located in Chepachet, RI will host their first annual Spring Festival and Cup Cake Challenge. This event will include many aspects such as live music, food trucks, face -painting, wine tasting, indoor and outdoor vendors, kids bouncy house and local artisans. The event will run from 10am-6pm on both April 9th and 10th. This first annual Spring Festival will be a community event for all ages and this festival is FREE to the public, however to take part in the Cupcake Challenge and earn a chance to vote on your favorite cupcakes, tickets will be limited and have to be purchased in advance for $15. The portions of the proceeds from the Cupcake Challenge will be donated towards the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. According to the owners of the Purple Cat Winery “they are every excited to have another community event after having a four day successful Christmas Village back in December which was attended by ove...

On Wednesday during the West Warwick Citizen's Police class we learned about 2 tools that the police officers use. The 2 tools we learned about were OC spray (Pepper spray) and the second was the taser.  Police officers use the pepper spray when subjects are being combative with them or they will use it for large crowds. After it is sprayed the feeling is like eating a hot pepper your eyes start to water and they feel like they are on fire! They also taught us the proper way to spray the paper spray and they showed us a video about pepper spray. Here is the video they showed us on how to pepper spray the proper way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBeUl7UmxU. The last part of the class was the when we learned  about the Taser. The taser is used by someone getting zapped. The reason why they use the taser is because it helps to control people when they are not following directions.

A few weeks back I came across a post that The Warwick Police had on their FaceBook page about the wonderful K9 program they have that been in place since 2012. Just wanted to thank the team for their hard work! Here is some material the post  mentioned  some of  K-9 Viking and K-9 Fox success so far they have 497 narcotic searches, 53 building searches, 97 human tracks, and 72 demonstrations.   Since the K-9’s have been in place they have had 10 apprehensions and only 3 required a “bite”.   According to the Warwick Police that is a 70% non- injury rate. Awesome Job  K-9 Viking and K-9 Fox have been responsible for seizing more than 150 pounds of marijuana, 34 pounds of heroin, 36 pounds of cocaine, meth, ecstasy, molly and over thousands of illegal prescription pills off the streets.   In drug money they recovered $900k dollars. According to the post from WPD that was written.  K-9 Viking Photo Credit: Bethany Steere Photography  ...

Hi All, Well week 3 of the 10 week classes is in the books. During the course on Wednesday night we learned about Criminal Law and the elements of criminal law. In Criminal law there are 2 sources of it which are Statutes, and Common Law. In Rhode Island the Common Law definition is when the Rhode Island Statue doesn't define a crime. For example: the elements of a burglary are found in case law. A Statue can replace or codify the common law. Some law areas we went over were crimes against people, property crimes, crimes against society, and Inchoate Crimes.  Inchoate crimes are conspiracy, solicitation, and attempt. At the end of the class we were showing a video of what cases district court handle. They mostly handle civil disputes,and  small business court. Thanks for reading!

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to share with you all about an excellent photographer if any of you are looking to get pictures done. Her name is Bethany Steere and the name of her company is Bethany Steere Photography. Back in November I had the pleasure of using her to get headshots done. I had been looking to get them done for a while and after seeing her amazing work she was the right one to go with. Bethany does a great job with editing the pictures and getting them back in a fast timely manner. Bethany is a fabulous photographer and it shows in all her work that she does. She is also very creative and that also shows in all her shoots that she has done. Her prices are very reasonable! Please be sure to head over to her Facebook page and take a look at her gorgeous images. https://www.facebook.com/BethanySteerePhotography/    Also make sure to check out Bethany Steere's new website at  http://www.bethanysteerephotography.com Here is a beautiful su...

Hi All, Reading the title you might be wondering what FATS stands for? FATS stands for Firearms Training Simulator.  This is a machine that allows police officer to practice shooting their guns/tasers and is on a flat screen. The Firearms Training Simulator has different  scenarios in which officers have to respond to and make  a split -second decision on which weapon they would use in the scene. On Friday morning I got to try the FATS out as part of the West Warwick Citizens Police Class that I'm taking .This let me see the kind of decisions that police officers have to make every day when they respond to incidents. Here's a video I found that shows people using it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkf3XgS6SA4

Last night week 2 of the West Warwick's Citizen's Police class we went over Use of Force with  Col. Silva. He went over the policy that West Warwick PD go by and when the PD should use force. They showed us some videos to on force that PD use when needed. The next half of them meeting we went over Patrol Operations with  Sgt. Vannini. He explained to us the patrol duties, staffing, how people report incidents, and their beat systems and how it's divided into 5 beats. Then he went over some case scenario's with us. Last but not least we saw how the FATS ( firearms simulator).  We signed up to try it out my day if Friday morning .  Stay Turned for another post about that.  Thanks for reading!

Happy New Year to all of you. Haven't written in a while, now that I'm back I'll share with you what a new experience I started this week. On Wednesday night I had my first West Warwick Citizen's Police Academy class. This class will run for the next 9 weeks and they are going to cover many different  topics. In the past I've taken the Warwick and Cranston's Citizens Police Classes those were a blast! For our first class on  Wednesday  we went over the History of the West Warwick Police and had Introductions with people in the class. I'll update you after next week's class. Next week's session is on the Use of Force.

Photo Credit: Esther Robshaw On August 26 th Warwick held their National Night out event. To Kick off the National Night Out Ceremonies on August 26 th , Mayor Avedisian and Council Woman Donna Travis thanked everyone for coming out to the event. It was suppose to be held on August 4 th but was rescheduled due to the storm. At National Night out there were many different groups/organizations that had tables set up such as The Greater Warwick Lions Club, Buttonwoods Crime Watch, Citizen’s Police Alumni Group, and the Oakland Beach Crime Watch and many more.   Some of the groups that were present were 211, American Red Cross, Gloria Gemma Foundation, and the Warwick Emergency Management Agency Mobile Command Center. ATV Demo Officer Maggiacomo -Photo Credit Esther Robshaw For children there were a few fun activities for them such, as the Warwick Fire Department ‘s Fire Safety House, Bounce House, and The Slide.   During the night there were three demonst...