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There’s No Doubting Thomasville As An Alabama Community Of Excellence

| August 9, 2017 @ 5:01 am

By Cary Estes

The town of Thomasville sits about 100 miles away from Mobile to the south, Montgomery to the east and Tuscaloosa to the north. Some might say this places the rural community in the middle of nowhere. Longtime Thomasville Mayor Sheldon Day prefers to say that the city actually is “in the center of everything.”

Indeed, since graduating from the Alabama Communities of Excellence program in 2005, Thomasville has proved to be a magnet attracting people from throughout the region. They are drawn by an innovative career-readiness program, a vibrant arts and recreation scene and other big accomplishments that belie Thomasville’s small size (population of about 5,000).

The ACE program helps small towns such as Thomasville identify and maximize their attributes to strengthen long-term economic success. Day, who is in his 21st year as Thomasville mayor, said the city has thrived under the direction of ACE, partly by learning how to work together to achieve wide-ranging goals.“Even before ACE, we’ve always tried to make sure that everybody in our community – schools, businesses, City Council, Chamber of Commerce – is on the same page and doing what they can in their niche to make our community the best it can be,” Day said. “Once we got involved in the ACE program, we were able to take that to a whole new level in a way we never would have been able to do by ourselves. Small towns need guidance on how to accomplish things, and ACE provided the catalyst to pull all our personalities together and make the progress we needed.”

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