Thumbs Up - To Victoria-raised singer Nelly Furtado, for the release of her latest album, The Spirit Indestructible.
Thumbs Up - To Access Pro Bono, a charity dedicating to increasing justice, for organizing a free legal advice clinic Thursday in Centennial Square.
Thumbs Up - To Nanaimo native Tamas Dobozy, now teaching at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, for being named a finalist in the $25,000 Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize for his short-story collection, Siege 13.
Thumbs Down - To the owners of abandoned vessels left in the harbour at Chemainus - two have already sunk and Transport Canada is pumping one that is sinking to prevent it from becoming a navigation hazard.
Thumbs Up - To Advanced Education Minister John Yap and his department, for announcing a $29.2-million expansion at Camosun College that will result in two new trades buildings at the Interurban Campus.
Thumbs Up - To Bob Wright, for building a fishing charter business into the Oak Bay Marine Group, which has 24 operations in three countries, providing employment to 1,000 people. As the business turns 50, Wright is handing it over to son Randy.
