{"id":11519,"date":"2014-12-12T15:56:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=11519"},"modified":"2014-12-12T15:56:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:56:55","slug":"thumbs-the-holiday-special-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/12\/thumbs-the-holiday-special-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs! (The Holiday Special Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like <strong>Thumbs<\/strong>mas!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lots of Christmas things are happening around the SouthsideCentral region. Let&#8217;s get some Thumbs! going to tell you about them&#8230; Big Board!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Von Wellington and his Well Works Visual Arts non-profit group. Von&#8217;s an excellent photographer and he&#8217;s using his non-profit arm to give back to the community. <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MPkd4dw.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">He&#8217;s doing a special Christmas photo shoot fundraiser at Yanceyville&#8217;s Gunn Memorial Library on Thursday, December 18th (Click the link to see the flyer)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Danville&#8217;s Ascension Lutheran Church and their 57th annual Chrismon Tree. Each ornament is part of the story of Christ and the tree is elegantly beautiful. It&#8217;s a must-see destination this (and every holiday season). Make your way to 314 West Main Street in the nest few weeks to see it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismon.org\/chrismons-ministry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s their website to learn more about it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Danville&#8217;s Parks &amp; Recreation department for putting together the Community Holiday Light Show in Ballou Park. It starts on Monday, December 15th. The city and lots of volunteer groups are putting together the light show that you can drive through and see. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playdanvilleva.com\/409\/Community-Holiday-Light-Show\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the website for more information on that<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sadly, I&#8217;ve got to put a <strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> on the admission charge for that show. It originally started at $10 for cars and $15 for vans, and it;s now dropped to $7. That&#8217;s too much. Since the effort comes from city workers as part of the Parks &amp; Recreation department&#8217;s regular duties and a lot of volunteer work, I would have a hard time charging any admission at all. Although part of the proceeds are going to the charities listed on the website, I feel that voluntary donation would have been the way to go for this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s a set of Holiday Special Edition Thumbs! for you. More coming up on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/7aTEWad.jpg?resize=250%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Thumbsmas!<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumbs","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2ZN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11648,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/24\/thumbs-12242014\/","url_meta":{"origin":11519,"position":0},"title":"Thumbs! (12\/24\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"December 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're naughty, it's a Thumbs DOWN!... but if you're nice, it's a Thumbs UP! We've got Christmas Eve Thumbs! to hand out. Let's put them on a Big Board! Thumbs UP! to 2 Witches Winery & Brewery on Trade St. in Danville. We stopped there a week ago and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Thumbs!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Thumbs!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/thumbs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/7aTEWad.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11352,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/26\/thumbs-11262014\/","url_meta":{"origin":11519,"position":1},"title":"Thumbs! (11\/26\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"November 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"What time is it? Thumbs! time. I've got some fancy new Thumbs! for you. Shall we bring on that Big Board? Thumbs UP! to the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research. They're bringing back the \"Decorating the Trees for a Cause\" charity fundraiser again this year. You'll be able to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Thumbs!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Thumbs!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/thumbs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"sclogo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8125,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/02\/thumbs-12022013\/","url_meta":{"origin":11519,"position":2},"title":"Thumbs! (12\/02\/2013)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"December 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that Thanksgiving holiday is over, we've got a stack of Thumbs! Let's give them out... Would a stack of Thumbs! be a Thumbstack? (groan). Ok, enough already... You're going to be surprised, but I'll give a Thumbs UP! to Star News for their efforts to organize the 2013 Reidsville\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;ArtsCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"ArtsCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/artscentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6029,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/26\/thumbs-1226-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":11519,"position":3},"title":"Thumbs! (12\/26 edition)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"December 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Where are the \"Thumbs!\" going in this edition? Let's see if they're flying up or down... Let's get it going with some seasonal thoughts! Thumbs UP! to VDOT and all of the local government's road crews for working their collective asses off and clearing the roads quickly during the recent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;OpinionCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"OpinionCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/opinioncentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10140,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/01\/thumbs-912014\/","url_meta":{"origin":11519,"position":4},"title":"Thumbs! (9\/1\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"September 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it's been a while and my Thumbs! were getting rusty. Nobody likes rusty Thumbs! Here's the guidelines. UP! = Good. DOWN! = Bad. Let's bring on the Big Board... Thumbs DOWN! to Danville City Council's recent use of the \"consent agenda\". I know that a consent agenda is used\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Thumbs!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Thumbs!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/thumbs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"sclogo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7869,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/15\/thumbs-9152013\/","url_meta":{"origin":11519,"position":5},"title":"Thumbs! (9\/15\/2013)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"September 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"You've got Thumbs! to the left, Thumbs! to the right, and we're the only Thumber in town... Let's see our Thumbs! like and dislike this time out... Thumbs UP! to Joe Zappacosta. He's leaving the director job at the Halifax County library system and moving to the director job at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11520,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions\/11520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}