{"id":25588,"date":"2016-05-09T23:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=25588"},"modified":"2016-05-09T23:23:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T03:23:08","slug":"thumbs-5916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/09\/thumbs-5916\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs! (5\/9\/16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular humans have opposable thumbs. SouthsideCentral has amazing <strong>Thumbs!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>UP!<\/strong><\/span> is good and green. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">DOWN!<\/span><\/strong> is bad and red. That&#8217;s simple enough, so let&#8217;s go jump on that Big Board!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong><\/span> to Danville voters. They got it right in the recent City Council elections by returning all four incumbents to office. Danville&#8217;s got some issues, but to hang those issues on the incumbents was just wrong&#8230; and the voters saw through that.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong><\/span> to the idiotic Register &amp; Bee city council election endorsements that were published on Sunday, and a giant <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thumbs DOWN!<\/span><\/strong> for the next day&#8217;s Register &amp; Bee &#8220;dis-endorsements&#8221; that were published on Monday. The endorsements made little sense (&#8220;Robin Dabney because she had the best education of the candidates&#8221;&#8230; Huh?), and the next day&#8217;s reasons to not vote for candidates was just as stupid. We have to give a <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong><\/span> to Danville voters again, because they completely disregarded those Register &amp; Bee endorsement editorials.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong><\/span> for the Danville Police Department sending out a reminder about Danville&#8217;s youth curfew law. It&#8217;s a clear shot across the bow telling that the police will be actively enforcing the curfew law when school is out, and we look forward to seeing the results. We notice that the law is only for &#8220;public property&#8221; (as it has to be), so we see there&#8217;s a giant way out of this ordinance. If kids just stand in somebody&#8217;s front yard, the police will be unable to use the law to the community&#8217;s benefit. A <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thumbs DOWN!<\/span><\/strong> on the side for the fact that we actually have a curfew law, but that&#8217;s another story for another time.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong><\/span> for the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce. Yes, again. On Monday night, the Chamber held their annual awards banquet and it showcased the great work that the Chamber does. 39 teachers (one from each school in the region) were honored as &#8220;Educators of the Year&#8221;, and three of those were chosen for a $2500 cash award sponsored by the Danville Regional Foundation. Six people received the Young Professional PACE (professional &amp; community engagement awards. 15 middle and high school students were recognized for their starting their own businesses in the YEA! program (Young Entrepreneurs Academy), and 18 people were honored for completing the latest edition of the &#8220;Leadership Southside&#8221; program.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, a big <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong><\/span> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ymcadanville.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Danville YMCA<\/a>. They recently crossed the amazing 9000 member mark. Executive director Sarah Folmar and her team have worked hard to get the Y where it is, and that number proves it. Well done!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the Thumbs! for today. We&#8217;ve got more coming up here on SouthsideCentral!<\/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\" 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>Regular humans have opposable thumbs. 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(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":6874,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/06\/thumbs-55-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":25588,"position":1},"title":"Thumbs! (5\/5 edition)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"May 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a while since our Thumbs! got some use. Let's remedy that situation quickly. Let's get to the Thumbs! Thumbs UP! to all of the candidates that ran for Danville City Council. Even though there was a bit of under-the-table intrigue during the last few weeks of the campaign,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Thumbs!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Thumbs!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/thumbs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10310,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/18\/thumbs-9182014\/","url_meta":{"origin":25588,"position":2},"title":"Thumbs! (9\/18\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"September 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's get those Thumbs! working... A Thumbs! Big Board is approaching... Thumbs UP! to Danville City Council for immediately recognizing and trying to help out Madison Whittle with his zoning snafu at Tuesday's meeting. It's a shame that the laws don't give the council the chance to immediately order a\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":32198,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/02\/thumbs-7216\/","url_meta":{"origin":25588,"position":3},"title":"Thumbs! (7\/2\/16)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"July 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Some people have mood swings. I have Thumbs! swings. This Thumbs! article is dedicated to Friday's Danville City Council organizational meeting, so it's longer than a normal Thumbs! article. I'm good with that. Yeah, the same old rules if you haven't figured them out by now. UP! is good. 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