Schools to host events in Washtucna, Kahlotus, LaCrosse

The Kahlotus Music Department is hosting the Southeast Washington Region Junior High Mass Band and Choir Festival in Braddock Gymnasium, Kahlotus on Nov. 5. The festival concludes with a concert open to the public at 6:30 p.m.

Six hundred students are expected to participate from Asotin, Clarkston, Colfax, Colton, Dayton, Garfield-Palouse, Kahlotus, LaCrosse, Oakesdale, Pullman, Rosalia, St. John-Endicott, Tekoa, Touchet, Waitsburg and Washtucna.

Guest conductors for the festival are Columbia Basin College Choir Director Kathy Mancinelli, and Lee Shook, director of the Gonzaga and Whitworth ba...