{"id":7248,"date":"2010-09-11T23:21:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T03:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=7248"},"modified":"2010-09-11T23:21:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T03:21:50","slug":"thumbs-91110-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/11\/thumbs-91110-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs! (9\/11\/10 edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thumbs <strong>UP<\/strong>! Thumbs <strong>DOWN<\/strong>! Thumbs all around!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make it happen!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Danville Chief of Police Philip Broadfoot. There was a call for service in my neighborhood Friday night and I went outside to see what was going on. Surprisingly, the chief of the department was out there responding to the call along with the other officers. That&#8217;s a good example of leadership and it shows that he&#8217;s still willing to do the job that he is responsible for making other people do.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to &#8220;Jed&#8221;, the Halifax County Sheriff&#8217;s Office bloodhound who&#8217;s recovering from a broken hip after being thrown out of a deputy&#8217;s car which went airborne and flipped over twice. Jed underwent surgery to repair his injuries and Halifax County Sheriff Stanley Noblin said that Jed may actually return to duty within a month. Don&#8217;t worry, the deputy had his seat belt on and he&#8217;s already returned to duty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately, what goes <strong>UP!<\/strong> must go <strong>DOWN!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regretfully, I have to give a <strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> to the &#8220;Patriot Day&#8221; annual ceremony of remembrance at the Danville courthouse plaza. I know that remembering the 9\/11 terrorist attacks is important but if you&#8217;re going to hold a ceremony about it, do it on the actual day of September 11th and not the day before (Friday). God forbid you wouldn&#8217;t want to ruin your weekend by doing it on 9\/11.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> to the Lynchburg NAACP for trying to play a race card (big surprise there, eh?) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.godanriver.com\/news\/2010\/sep\/10\/juvenile-prosecutions-weekend-beating-death-eyed-s-ar-498175\/\" target=\"_blank\">a discussion about making juvenile murderers face adult punishment for their crimes<\/a>. I don&#8217;t give a damn whether a juvenile murderer is black, white or striped. Do the crime, get ready to do the time. Race pimping ain&#8217;t pretty.<\/li>\n<li>The City of Danville&#8217;s Planning Commission is getting a <strong>GIANT Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong> for setting up a special public hearing on the new floodplain designation, sending out over 300 notices to affected residents to invite them to the meeting and then not having enough Planning Commission members show up for the special meeting they called to form a quorum. That&#8217;s right, folks. Over 30 people showed up for this meeting and nothing was able to get accomplished because there wasn&#8217;t enough members present to make the meeting official. Luckily, the city&#8217;s staff salvaged the day by meeting with the people who attended to explain the new floodplain information. Speaking about the Planning Commssion&#8217;s attendance, there hasn&#8217;t been a Planning Commission meeting this year that&#8217;s had 100% attendance. In fact, at their annual organizational meeting where they elect the chairman, one of the members even missed that one! If you&#8217;re going to serve on a city commission, go to the meetings that you&#8217;re holding. If you&#8217;re calling a special meeting that potentially affects over 300 city residents, there&#8217;s NO EXCUSE not to have enough members present to meet the quorum requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two UP!&#8217;s and three DOWN!&#8217;s. Got any of your own? You know what to do.<\/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>Thumbs UP! Thumbs DOWN! 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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":[]},{"id":7592,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/12\/thumbs-81212-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":7248,"position":2},"title":"Thumbs! (8\/12\/12 Edition)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"August 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"We've got some Thumbs! and they're ready to go... Let's start the thumbing... Thumbs UP! to the Halifax American Debs all-star team for winning the Dixie Softball World Series this past week. 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