SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University's efforts on behalf of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has raised more than $26,000 through the “Up 'til Dawn” program.

More than 275 SRU students came together at midnight Nov. 8 in the Aebersold Student Recreation Center prepared to stay up until 6 a.m. as part of the fundraising program.

Participating students formed teams and spent the night competing against one another in a variety of challenges.

Fundraising is still open and will continue until the spring. Donations can be made to individual students or SRU. To donate directly to SRU, visit www.utd.stjude.org/SRU.

SLIPPERY ROCK — Starting in December, Grove City Medical Center orthopedic surgeon David Dean will be taking patients at a new office in the borough.The office will be located at 621 Kelly Blvd. and can be contacted by calling 724-264-4864. Dean also will continue to see patients at his Grove City office.

BRADY TWP — Jennings Environmental Education Center will host “Western PA and the Fur Trade” at 2 p.m. Dec. 8.Chris Kubiak of the Community College of Allegheny County will discuss the history of the fur trade in the western part of the state. Dressed in frontier garb, Kubiak will explore the impact of the fur trade, and how two very different cultures, Native American and European, became dependent on each other.The session will end with a question-and-answer session.

GROVE CITY — Retiring Grove City College President Richard Jewell and Hillview Intermediate Center Principal Tammi Martin are the 2013 recipients of the Grove City College Florence E. MacKenzie Campus-Community Awards.Jewell became president in 2003 and will retire at the end of the 2013-14 academic year. In addition to being active at Hillview, Martin serves as an adjunct professor at the college and helped establish the college's special education major.In 1971, Florence E. MacKenzie, wife of college President Charles MacKenzie, sought to cultivate the relationship between the college and the community. Following her death in 1981, President MacKenzie created the awards to honor her efforts.