{"id":6413,"date":"2010-02-13T21:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T02:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2010-02-13T21:13:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T02:13:39","slug":"thumbs-213-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/13\/thumbs-213-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs! (2\/13 edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to use our Thumbs!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shall we get the Thumbs! started? You betcha!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> 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 for Danville&#8217;s last winter storm. It&#8217;s rather refreshing to hear a public official accept responsibility for bad decisions and apologize in front of everybody instead of trying to pass the blame on.\u00a0 In related news, a stupid Thumbs UP! to Mother Nature for producing a beautiful snowfall this morning that lasted about 8 hours before it disappeared completely.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Danville dentist Dr. Paul Grekos. He&#8217;s been named as head coach for the Chatham High School football team. Grekos has been juggling his job as a dentist while coaching girls&#8217; softball, JV football, and he was even an assistant coach for the football team before taking on the head coach job. Grekos was a standout football player at GWHS in the early 80&#8217;s and it&#8217;s great to see somebody like him give back to the kids.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Rockingham County (NC) Sheriff Sam Page as he declares his candidacy for re-election. Page has been a great sheriff in his first term and keeps a high public presence. Page will have some competition is this election cycle, so it should be a good race.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Tom Perriello for scheduling a town hall meeting in Brookneal this coming Tuesday. Brookneal&#8217;s been hurting over the past five years so it&#8217;s good to see a elected official do a meeting in a town of 1250 people. (This event hasn&#8217;t been confirmed by Perriello&#8217;s staff yet, but it comes from a very credible source.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anything going down this cycle?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> to the Virginia House of Delegates for actually passing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/04\/something-to-make-our-paranoid-friends-feel-better\/\" target=\"_blank\">the most idiotic piece of legislation of the year<\/a>. The man who introduced this bill said it could stop the &#8220;Mark of the Beast&#8221; part of the book of Revelations. Dear God (no pun intended)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a look at our Thumbs! for this edition. Comments? Thumbs! of your own? 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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":6309,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/27\/thumbs-127-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":6413,"position":2},"title":"Thumbs! (1\/27 edition)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"January 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We've got Thumbs! and we're not afraid to use them! Let's kick it off with... 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