SOUTHEAST HOSPITAL TO PARTICIPATE IN CHORAL PERFORMANCE

Southeast Hospital will participate in "Voices for Hospice" with a choral performance Saturday at West Park Mall.

"Voices for Hospice" was started six years ago by a United Kingdom-based charity, and more than 40 countries now participate in the event, according to Carol Keppler, volunteer coordinator at Southeast Hospice. This is the first time the United States has participated.

The local "Voices for Hospice" choir, made up of singers from Bollinger and Cape Girardeau counties, hospice staff and volunteers, will perform Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" at 7 p.m. Saturday at the mall's Center Court.

Lee Stewart is choir director, and David Stewart is organist.

A brief memorial service will be conducted by the Rev. Larry Gray, Southeast Hospice spiritual coordinator, and area churches have been asked to toll church bells at 7:30 p.m. Saturday to honor hospice patients who have died.