SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University has received a $40,000 grant from the state Liquor Control Board to become even more proactive in reducing underage and dangerous drinking.

SRU was awarded $20,000 for the 2013-14 school year and $20,000 for the 2014-15 school year to initiate new educational programs.

The programs will include peer-to-peer education through a bystander intervention program and a marketing project focusing on pro-health and social-norm messages.

They also will include education campaigns through SRU police and new, online alcohol educational services for first-year students and their parents.

SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University again has joined with the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center, based in Pittsburgh, to present Native American Celebration Day at SRU.The event will include storytelling, traditions, customs, dance, culture and a discussion of the impact of using Native American words as sports team names and mascots.The celebration runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Robert M. Smith Student Center Ballroom.

BRADY TWP — Jennings Environmental Education Center will host “Animals of the Ice,” a presentation about the animals that lived in Western Pennsylvania during the Ice Age, at 2 p.m. Sunday.The presentation will be done by Russell Graham, director of the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum at Penn State University and a professor of geoscience.The event is free and registration is not required.

GROVE CITY — Grove City Medical Center is encouraging smokers to quit smoking cigarettes as a part of the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout on Nov. 21.To support this, the center is offering anyone who brings to the hospital a full pack of cigarettes a lunch, which includes a turkey club sandwich, snack size bag of potato chips and a soft drink.This “Cold Turkey” offer is good from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 21 and smokers may bring their cigarettes to the center's public relations and marketing office, where they will receive a voucher good for the free meal.

GROVE CITY — Olde Town Grove City’s annual open house will be held Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. in stores in downtown Grove City.Each participating business will host a prize worth at least $25, and everyone signing up will be eligible for one of the grand prize gift baskets: one full of $10 gift certificates and the other with $15 gift certificates from the participating businesses. Each participating business will have a bow on the door during the event.Nancy’s Hair Loft is celebrating a 30 year anniversary during this event, and music will play there from noon to 5 p.m.There will be pictures with Santa from 1 to 2 p.m. Santa also will be visiting Kritter Kreations.Grace Methodist Church family ministries will offer refreshments and a small gift to those who stop by.Tower Presbyterian Church will host its annual train display from 1 to 4 p.m.People also can take canned goods to place in front of their favorite tree for the Grove City Food Pantry Town Parade of Trees. The trees will be up from Saturday to Dec. 15.