The Timpson Area Chamber of Commerce's annual Frontier Days celebration gets underway with the Sonny Tippett Memorial Gospel Singing at 7 p.m. Thursday night at First Baptist Church. Among the performers are the Calvary Boys, Heritage Crossing and Broken Vessels. Tickets for the gospel signing are on sale at Timpson Public Library, King’s Nursery in Tenaha or from Marilyn Corder, pre-sale is $8 or $10 at the door.

Frontier Days will have carnival rides, midway, arts & crafts and food booths, all three days.

The carnival also gets started Thursday night. Carnival armbands are on sale at Timpson Public Library from 9 to 5, thru Friday. Cost is $15 per ticket, pre-sale and $18 at the carnival. Armband all-u-can ride is from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. each day. Tickets are good for one day only, either on Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

Friday night’s entertainment downtown starts at 6 p.m. with Curtis Daniels and Dale Cummings.

Saturday's events include a parade at 10 a.m. with prize money and trophies for best decorated bikes for kids, a car show with a $500 first prize, plus gun fight reenactment, a clown with magic shows.

The laser light show returns and a street dance Saturday night with Charlie Robison.