A short video/message by Bunny Young promoting ‘Rough and Roll’, an event on August 2 to kick off Service Dog Week in Richmond, Virginia. The speaker discusses service animal awareness, personal experience with service dogs, mitigation measures for public gatherings (masks, social distancing), and invites the community and families (including dogs) to attend.
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August 2 (year not specified in the chunk).
11:00am to 3:00pm.
River City Roll in Richmond, Virginia.
To kick off Service Dog Week and promote service animal awareness.
Difference Makers (mentioned as the placement for the video).
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Ginny, are you gonna participate in this Facebook Live? No, just she's gonna do his thing. So we're a little late today, but I wanted to let you all know as we're starting these Dog Days of Summer as of a couple weeks ago, that something really exciting is coming up hopefully for the community here in Richmond as well as the national community around service animal awareness. So we're doing an event Aug. 2 to kick off Service Dog Week here in Virginia. And I believe it's also Service Dog Week nationally in the United States. And so that kickoff event is going to be August 2nd from 11am to 3pm at River City Roll. And it's called Rough and Roll. And so Guinness and I just wanted to invite you to that. I know there's a lot of uncertainty right now with being able to go out in public and gatherings and all of that. So for those of you who do want to join us, please know that we have a mask sponsor so that we have plenty of masks for attendees. We'll be making sure that social distancing is easy to maintain and all the while making sure that we're having a lot of fun for the entire family, including the four legged friends. So other things with the Dog Days of Summer that you know you can do to kind of help us is to just share a little bit about the videos that we're posting on Service animal awareness. And why is that here being. Why is this video being posted in Difference Makers? Well, because if you haven't heard me say before, I was blessed to be able to have a heart condition. And that gift of the heart condition has changed my perspective on life. It's changed my perspective on how to run companies. It's changed my perspective on disability and individuals with a disability, person centered language, person first language, how I work with companies. So it's really impacted every part of my life, both personally and professionally. And most of you know that I don't believe that there's that separation. I think that they're so intertwined that there's just one life and we love it to our fullest and we try to fulfill our purpose. And if there is any being on the face of this planet who lives to fulfill his purpose, I know that it's my service animal because I wouldn't be here without him. He relentlessly dedicates his life to making sure that I am able to make the world a better place. So therefore he makes the world a better place. He makes a huge difference in my life and as well as the other service animals that I've had in my life. And it's really, really important that we share this awareness of service animals in the community and change some of the perceptions that individuals currently have about service animals and that individuals may have where they feel like just buying a vest on Amazon and putting it on your dog qualifies that as a service animal. He is an incredible, invaluable piece of medical equipment that my life depends on, although he may not look like it right now because he's fully sleeping. Are you sleeping on the job? I'm not sleeping. I'm just resting my eyes. So, you know, let's change some minds. Let's have some good family fun. Let's share some awareness and let's make the world a better place. So that is what we have from our Chief K9 officer and me today. Thank you for making the world a better place. And I will see you next week and hopefully I'll see you August 2nd at Rough and Roll at River City roll in Richmond, Virginia from 11:00am to 3:00pm Bye now.
