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SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — The Slippery Rock School Board on Monday got a new member.

The board voted to appoint Melissa Allen of Worth Township to represent Region 3. She replaces Mark Mraz, who resigned in October for personal reasons.

Region 3 covers Brady and Worth townships as well as Slippery Rock and West Liberty.

SLIPPERY ROCK — A Slippery Rock University student-run “Shakin' It For A Cure Zumbathon for Breast Cancer Awareness” event has raised $600 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.More than 100 students, faculty, staff and residents participated and donated at the event on Sunday.It was hosted by the physical and health education department's F.I.T. Club, the Association of Residence Hall Students and the National Residence Hall Honorary.

GROVE CITY — The Grove City College Center for Vision and Values will present the J. Howard Pew Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. Nov. 21 in Sticht Lecture Hall in the Hall of Arts and Letters on campus.College President Richard Jewell will speak.Nov. 22 marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and Jewell will talk about the Warren Commission Report that investigated the shooting and what might have happened had Kennedy lived. The event is free.

SLIPPERY ROCK — A free screening of the film “Gasland II,” which is about Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling and fracking, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the theater of the Robert M. Smith Student Center at Slippery Rock University.A question and answer session with the film’s director Josh Fox, who was nominated for an academy award for “Gasland,” and former Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields will take place after the film.The event is sponsored by Marcellus Outreach Butler.