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Three Rivers College will host “Shall We Gather at Three Rivers,” a gospel choir festival, on Saturday, April 25 at 3 p.m. in the Tinnin Fine Arts Center.  The festival will feature choirs and singers from across the region. General admission is free. “We’re very proud to be able to bring such talented musicians to the Tinnin Center for this festival,” said Cindy White, an Instructor of Music at Three Rivers and one of the event’s coordinators. “This is a great opportunity to show off the gospel music talent in the Poplar Bluff region, as well as that of our choir here at Three Rivers.” Featured choirs at the festival will be the First United Methodist Church Chancel Choir, the

Center Stage and the Three Rivers College Music Department present the lively musical Oklahama! at 7 p.m. April 16-18 and 2 p.m. April 19 at the Tinnin Center on the Three Rivers Campus in Poplar Bluff. Tickets are just $10. They can be purchased in advance at the Poplar Bluff Chamber of Commerce and the Three Rivers Financial Services Office. Tickets also will be sold at the door. With Rodgers and Hammerstein’s timeless music, Oklahoma! celebrates the vigor of America’s pioneering spirit with memorable music, boot-stomping dancing, romance, comedy and action. Set in Western Indian Territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a

More than 50 employers will be taking applications at a Spring Job Fair to be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Thursday, April 9, in the Bess Activity Center at Three Rivers College in Poplar Bluff. The event is open to the public, and admission is free. The Spring College Transfer and Job Fair is sponsored by the Parents Working Committee of the Community Resource Council and Three Rivers College. “The Parents Working Committee holds a job fair each August, and we had employers suggest we also hold one in the spring,” said Teresa Johnson, chair of the Parents Working Committee and Director of Communications at Three Rivers. “Three Rivers for years has organized a spring college transfer and

“Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans,” an event to recognize the veterans of the Vietnam War, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, March 27, in the Bess Activity Center at Three Rivers College. The event is an early celebration of Vietnam Veterans Day, which is March 29. It sponsored by Chapter 1056 of Vietnam Veterans of America, an organization with the goals of campaigning on issues important to Vietnam veterans, creating a new identity for this generation of veterans, and improving public perception of Vietnam veterans. This is an opportunity for our community to come together for the long overdue welcome home the Vietnam veterans deserve for their service to our country. Friday’s event will include speaker Bill Kiefer, membership chair