Small business forum to focus on Watershed Projects

Stan Watson, Super District 7 Commissioner, will host a small business forum 6-9 p.m. March 17 at the Lou Walker Senior Center, 2538 Panola Road, Lithonia. The forum is designed to inform and prepare small businesses and community members of the upcoming opportunities and jobs that will be created as a result of the $1.9 Billion DeKalb County Watershed Management Capital Improvements Projects that will take place over the next five years.

Speakers include representatives from DeKalb County government, former Labor Commissioner, Michael Thurmond, Executive Vice-President at AGL Resources, Ralph Cleveland, and president of the Entrepreneur Development Network , Jerome Edmondson. Attendees will be allowed to make comments and ask questions.