Approximately 300 students from throughout the East Central Community College district, which includes Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott and Winston counties, attended the College’s annual District High School Choral Festival held in Huff Auditorium on the Decatur campus. James Hawkins, choir director at Jim Hill High School in Jackson, served as guest clinician. Activities concluded with a mass choir performance in which students performed ‘The Word Was God,’ by Powell, ‘Kyrie’ by Gabriella and ‘Wade in the Water’ by Hogan.