{"id":82793,"date":"2017-10-24T22:52:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T02:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=82793"},"modified":"2017-10-24T22:53:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T02:53:34","slug":"randomthoughts-102417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/24\/randomthoughts-102417\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (10\/24\/17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got the date correct before I published the article this time. Maybe I&#8217;m figuring this thing out. Heh.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see what I&#8217;m thinking about this time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s whip out a Big Board&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patti O&#8217;Keefe and the Caswell Messenger newspaper don&#8217;t get the recognition that they deserve. They&#8217;ve broken some big stories using good investigative reporting.<\/li>\n<li>Staunton River District supervisor Elton Blackstock continues to highly impress me in everything that he does. He&#8217;s not afraid to confront things directly and get the truth out.<\/li>\n<li>Golden Skillet has the best chicken breast filet sandwich in Danville, but it&#8217;s too damn expensive.<\/li>\n<li>I heart Buddy Rawley. He&#8217;s sorely missed on Danville City Council for his willingness to say whatever is on his mind.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a huge difference in gas prices as you go around the city.<\/li>\n<li>The self-serve kiosk at the Ballou Park McDonald&#8217;s has nothing to do with the so-called push for a $15 minimum wage, no matter how that would fit your political agenda.<\/li>\n<li>The River District Festival needs to find its own identity. Organizers have been working hard to fine tune the events, getting rid of the things that just didn&#8217;t work. But all of that hard work gets steamrolled when it&#8217;s the same weekend as the big Reidsville Fall Festival. The River District Festival is also the only one in the region that has a paid final concert, and that just doesn&#8217;t feel right.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m amazed at how the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce hasn&#8217;t missed a step after the loss of the charismatic Laurie Moran. This year&#8217;s trade show went off just like before, and that&#8217;s saying a lot.<\/li>\n<li>Now that Steve DelGiorno &amp; Rick Barker&#8217;s &#8220;Crema &amp; Vine&#8221; has opened, it&#8217;s been amusing to see the silence from the Usual Suspects who were putting the business down before the place was built.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whew. That was a lot of RandomThoughts. 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