Local students performed at the Iowa Choral Directors Association Opus Honor Choir Festival Thursday.

The following students were selected for grade-by-grade honor choirs:
9th Grade Select Mixed Choirs:
Pella High – Sam Burrows, Taylor Decious, Josh Miller, and Mason Holland
Pella Christian – Carson Breon, Nathaniel Veenstra
7th-8th Grade Select Choirs:
Pella Middle School – Elijah Burrows, Cooper Vos, Gavin Norton, Jake Rietveld, and Giovy Eekhoff

Close to 3,000 students were nominated by their directors for 720 positions in the four Opus Honor Choirs. They sang at the C.Y. Stephens Auditorium in the Iowa State Center in Ames.