DeKalb County Chief Executive Burrell Ellis is the featured speaker at a monthly DeKalb Chamber of Commerce event early next week.

The CEO will review the county’s accomplishments in 2011 at the First Monday lunch. The event runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Dec. 5 at Georgia Piedmont Technical College, 495 N. Indian Creek Dr., Clarkston.

More information: www.dekalbchamber.org.

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