• Canton designated as City of Civility by the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA). The City adopted a civility resolution in GMA’s new Embrace Civility program during a Council meeting in February. Canton is the third city in Georgia to make this commitment.

• The City of Canton participated in the first ever More Than Murals Workshop. The workshop is a three-day intensive on using art to address community challenges and is organized and sponsored by the Georgia Council for the Arts, the City of Thomasville, the Georgia Municipal Association, and the Thomasville Center for the Arts. Participating community teams left the workshop with a specific arts-based strategy that addresses the challenges that their cities are facing. Canton also received an $8,000 Creative Placemaking Project Grant. For more information, visit CantonGa.gov.