{"id":9488,"date":"2014-07-26T23:16:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T03:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=9488"},"modified":"2014-07-26T23:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T03:16:48","slug":"thumbs-7262014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/26\/thumbs-7262014\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs! (7\/26\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up! Down! Up! Down! Up! Down!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ups be good. Downs be bad. Big board be good.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to newly elected Danville School Board member Steven Gould. He promised in the election to start &#8220;office hours&#8221; once a month to hear from the public, and he&#8217;s already fulfilled that pledge with his first session on Tuesday night. The other new school board member, Sharon Dones stopped by to check in so she gets a <strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> too. These two &#8220;Get It&#8221;, folks. There&#8217;s great things to be said for accessibility to elected officials and these two are doing it right.<\/li>\n<li>Sticking with a Gould theme&#8230; <strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Missy Neff Gould for being appointed to the Tobacco Commission. Governor Terry McAuliffe made the announcement Friday afternoon. Missy is a smart businesswoman who&#8217;s up and coming in the area, and we&#8217;re sure she&#8217;ll a great job on the Tobacco Commission.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> to Tom McLaughlin. Yes, SouthsideCentral often mocks him as a partisan hack but last week he wrote an amazingly touching column. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sovanow.com\/index.php?\/opinion\/article\/shining_on\/\" target=\"_blank\">In his weekly opinion column, he set aside politics and talked about a teenager from Bluestone that just died from a rare cancer and how it brought back memories to him<\/a>. Tom McLaughlin is an excellent writer, but this opinion piece is one of his best columns ever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My goodness. All these Thumbs are UP! Do you believe in miracles?<\/p>\n<p>More coming up on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/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>Up! 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(6\/24\/15)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"June 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"UP! or DOWN! 'em if you got 'em, boys. Thumbs, that is. Let's play. Here's the long list of Official Thumbs! Rules: UP! is good. DOWN! is bad. The. End. It's time to bring on that Big Board! Thumbs UP! to Sharon Dones. Thumbs UP! to Renee Hughes. Thumbs UP!\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":9231,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/06\/thumbs-762014\/","url_meta":{"origin":9488,"position":1},"title":"Thumbs! (7\/6\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"July 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Our Thumbs! were getting rusty, so we oiled them up and now they're ready to go... UP! is good, DOWN! is bad. Let's do it... Thumbs UP! to Danville's newest restaurant choices! In the past few weeks we've had Moon River Thai Bistro, Nick's Grill and (that place on Ridge\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":12105,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/05\/thumbs-3515\/","url_meta":{"origin":9488,"position":2},"title":"Thumbs! (3\/5\/15)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"March 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Two Thumbs! articles in less than one week means I've got some strong opinions. Let's take a look at what direction the Thumbs! are heading this time... If you guessed that there was a Big Board coming, it's a Thumbs UP! for you. Thumbs UP! to Danville City Councilman Lee\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":8125,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/02\/thumbs-12022013\/","url_meta":{"origin":9488,"position":3},"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... You're going to be surprised, but I'll give a Thumbs UP! to Star News for their efforts to organize the 2013 Reidsville\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;ArtsCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"ArtsCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/artscentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6309,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/27\/thumbs-127-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":9488,"position":4},"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... Thumbs UP! to Danville Mayor Sherman Saunders for coming up with the idea of the \"Coalition for a Safe Danville\". It's a good idea with a lot of potential. Community & civic leaders are partnering\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":10412,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/29\/thumbs-9292014\/","url_meta":{"origin":9488,"position":5},"title":"Thumbs! (9\/29\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"September 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Up. Down. Down. Up. Up. Up. Down. It's Thumbs! time. Big Board! Thumbs UP! to Sonya Wolen, Ben Capozzi and everyone else from the Danville Science Center. They made Old 97 Rail Days a perfect weekend event and the entire staff runs an excellent operation there. 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