{"id":6309,"date":"2010-01-27T00:07:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T05:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2010-01-27T00:07:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T05:07:31","slug":"thumbs-127-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/27\/thumbs-127-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs! (1\/27 edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got Thumbs! and we&#8217;re not afraid to use them!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s kick it off with&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Danville Mayor Sherman Saunders for coming up with the idea of the &#8220;Coalition for a Safe Danville&#8221;. It&#8217;s a good idea with a lot of potential. Community &amp; civic leaders are partnering to help make Danville a safer place to live and raise the quality of life. But we&#8217;d be remiss in not giving a&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> for holding the kickoff meeting on a Tuesday afternoon (in the middle of a business day!) I would love to have attended this meeting, but the world of work doesn&#8217;t allow a majority of people to just take off in the middle of the day. The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 9th at 4 PM. That&#8217;s slightly better, but it still locks out a lot of people. They can do better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After and up and down set of thumbs, let&#8217;s get Thumbier!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to the Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney of Halifax County, Kim White. She was inducted into the 2010 Class of Fellows at the Virginia Bar Association&#8217;s annual meeting this past weekend. That&#8217;s an honor that denotes members of the judiciary that are &#8220;deemed to be outstanding in their profession and in their community&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Robby Wazeka, Ronald Snead, David White and Barry Bank. These four men have filed the paperwork to take over the open District 5 Halifax County Board of Supervisors seat vacated by James Edmunds (who was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates). But again, we&#8217;ve got to throw&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> to the Board of Supervisors for putting these four candidates&#8217; interviews behind a closed session. Yep, we know that there&#8217;s nothing illegal about doing so, but wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to throw rays of sunshine into the process of how that open seat will be filled? We think that if the public were allowed to see and hear the questioning of the interview, it would restore some faith to the theory that the decisions are not pre-made and that this interview process could be just a formality. Nah, that would never happen in Halifax County politics, would it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ups. Downs. Those Thumbs! are going everywhere. Got some Thumbs! of your own? 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(2\/11\/16)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"February 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"If you don't use your Thumbs! for ten weeks, they get rusty. Trust me on that one, folks. UP! is good. DOWN! is bad. Yes, I have to explain the rules before we play the game. Let's roll out a Big Board and play! Thumbs UP! to Paul Nicholson. Paul's\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":13851,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/31\/thumbs-83115\/","url_meta":{"origin":6309,"position":1},"title":"Thumbs! (8\/31\/15)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"August 31, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's wrap up the month of August by sticking our Thumbs! in the air. UP! is Good. DOWN! is Bad. DIAGONALLY! is Impossible. Here comes that Big Board! Thumbs UP! to the Virginia Flaggers. Yeah, I said that. In a first for the group, they put up a Third National\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":6413,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/13\/thumbs-213-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":6309,"position":2},"title":"Thumbs! (2\/13 edition)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"February 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time to use our Thumbs! Shall we get the Thumbs! started? You betcha! Thumbs UP! to Danville City Manager Lyle Lacy for a refreshing bit of honesty and candor. At the last Danville City Council meeting, Lacy admitted that he made some wrong decisions in the snow removal operations\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":11433,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/05\/thumbs-the-no-shave-november-special-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":6309,"position":3},"title":"Thumbs! (The No-Shave November Special Edition)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"December 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll tell you right now. They're all Thumbs UP! James Buckner came up with a great idea to raise money for the Danville Cancer Association during the month of November. \"No-Shave November\" was the plan for people to sell raffle tickets while growing beards during the month. 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They got it right in the recent City Council elections by returning all four incumbents\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":11090,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/09\/thumbs-veterans-day-parade-special-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":6309,"position":5},"title":"Thumbs! (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. 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