{"id":5995,"date":"2009-12-16T21:28:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T02:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=5995"},"modified":"2009-12-16T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T02:28:03","slug":"thumbs-1216-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/16\/thumbs-1216-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs! (12\/16 edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to debut a new occasional feature at SouthsideCentral&#8230;. &#8220;Thumbs!&#8221; We&#8217;ll look at things that have happened recently and give a &#8220;<strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong>&#8221; or a &#8220;<strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong>&#8220;. Let&#8217;s get started with today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;Thumbs!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start it off&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to the Danville Tourism Department and the Riverview Rotary Club for organizing the 2009 Riverview Rotary Christmas Parade. A large crowd turned out despite the cold weather for a parade that had well over 100 entries. We&#8217;re also giving a <strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgsr47.com\" target=\"_blank\">WGSR<\/a>&#8216;s TV coverage on the parade. Jessica Griffith and Laurie Moran did a good job covering the event. Howver, it&#8217;s not all kudos&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> to the Danville Tourism Department for not providing a list of parade entries so that we could publish them. It wasn&#8217;t on <a href=\"http:\/\/visitdanville.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">their website<\/a>, either.<\/li>\n<li>A giant<strong> Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> to the &#8220;DOA Riders&#8221; motorcycle group in the parade. One of the members was doing a burnout in front of the TV cameras and lost control of his motorcycle. Luckily, the motorcycle went down about 5 feet from the spectators but there was a high risk for significant injuries if the motorcycle had gone into the crowd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enough about the parade for now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to the City of Danville for turning the Worsham St. bridge landing into a beautiful gateway to the south side of the Riverwalk Trail. They&#8217;re still working on it, but it&#8217;s already looking nice.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of the Riverwalk Trail, let&#8217;s give a <strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> to whoever is slowly cleaning up the Long Mill destruction site. Slowly is the operative work as it still looks like a bomb went off there (which it technically did, but we digress&#8230;). Is anything really being cleaned up there?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s our first edition of &#8220;Thumbs!&#8221;. Agree? Disagree? Post your comments here. Got something for our next edition of &#8220;Thumbs!&#8221; ? Use the link up at the top for the SouthsideCentral TipLine and send them in!<\/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 time to debut a new occasional feature at SouthsideCentral&#8230;. &#8220;Thumbs!&#8221; We&#8217;ll look at things that have happened recently and give a &#8220;Thumbs UP!&#8221; or a &#8220;Thumbs DOWN!&#8220;. 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(Veterans Day Parade Special Edition)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"November 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Parades like today's make me proud to live in Danville. Here come da Thumbs! Big Board! Thumbs UP! to everybody who came to this year's Danville Veterans Day Parade. This was the largest crowd that I've seen, and their waving and cheering put a smile on all the honorees' faces.\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\/FTJuZgD.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/FTJuZgD.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/FTJuZgD.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/FTJuZgD.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8099,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/12\/thumbs-11122013\/","url_meta":{"origin":5995,"position":1},"title":"Thumbs! (11\/12\/2013)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"November 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been almost a month since our Thumbs! got a workout. Let's fix that problem now... You know the drill... Thumbs UP! to Laurie Moran and the staff at the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce for picking up another 5-Star accreditation rating from the US Chamber of Commerce. I'll\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":[]},{"id":10140,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/01\/thumbs-912014\/","url_meta":{"origin":5995,"position":2},"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":8709,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/29\/thumbs-5292014\/","url_meta":{"origin":5995,"position":3},"title":"Thumbs! (5\/29\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"May 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I have Thumbs! They go UP! They go DOWN! Come look at my Thumbs! in this edition. If you haven't figured it out by now, UP! is good and DOWN! is not good... Normally you'd expect at least one or two snarky comments about Danville Mall, but I've got to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;BusinessCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"BusinessCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/businesscentral\/"},"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":6029,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/26\/thumbs-1226-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":5995,"position":4},"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":8125,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/02\/thumbs-12022013\/","url_meta":{"origin":5995,"position":5},"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... 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