GROVE CITY — Grove City College will host a Young America's Foundation conference to expose high school students to conservative ideas.

The Northeast Conservative High School conference will be July 7 to 10 and will introduce students to conservative public policy and political activism.

The deadline for applications is June 4 with selections decided by June 9.

A number of speakers have been confirmed for the event, including Grove City College political science professor Paul Kengor.

Selectees will pay $375 for the program, which includes tuition, materials, food and lodging, according to a news release.

For information, e-mail Roger Custer at rcuster@yaf.org, or call 800-USA-1776.

Scholarships are available for students with financial need.

GROVE CITY — Wendell August Forge will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 2 p.m. Thursday to celebrate the opening of its new history center.The company relocated after a fire in March gutted the original forge and history center on Madison Avenue.The new center is housed at the company's temporary retail location at 1605 S. Center St. Ext.

SLIPPERY ROCK — High school students interested in the arts can still apply for Slippery Rock University's Summer Visual and Performing Arts Academy.The program is for students entering grades nine to 12. It will be July 5 to 16.Students will choose a program of study pertaining to the visual arts, jazz, dance, theater or creative writing. Students will have a number of SRU resources available to them, and can commute to the summer classes or stay in dormitories.Applications must be received by June 14 and are available online at www.sru.edu/pages/4233.asp or www.miu4.k12.pa.us/arts/summer_academy.asp.The summer academy is sponsored by SRU, the Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV and the Pennsylvania Regional Summer Schools of Excellence.For information call the program director at 724- 738-2868.

LIBERTY TWP, Mercer County — Ronald C. Faull, chairman of Liberty Township supervisors, has been elected to a three-year term on the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors.Faull took his new post April 21. He was elected by the association's executive committee.Faull is on the 12-member board that is responsible for governing the statewide association.The association represents 1,455 second-class townships, according to a news release.

SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University student Seth Sykora-Bodie will be learning Arabic this summer, not in a state university classroom, but from native speakers in Tunisia in North Africa.Sykora-Bodie of Slippery Rock will go there thanks to a U.S. Department of State scholarship that aims to send American students overseas to study critical-need languages.Sykora-Bodie is one of 575 college students to receive a scholarship out of nearly 5,300 applicants.Tunisia will be one of many stints abroad for Sykora-Bodie, who also has studied in France, India, South Korea, Costa Rica, Egypt and the United Kingdom.Sykora-Bodie, an honor student, is a political science, geography and French major at SRU.