PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich.— Nearly 150 top women golfers will return to Blythefield Country Club again this year to compete, and hundreds of volunteers are needed to pull it all off.

Meijer says more than 700 people pitched in during last year’s Meijer LPGA Classic presented by Kraft.  This year, organizers opened volunteer registration a month earlier, in hopes of attracting even more help for this year’s event.  Positions range from marshals and standard bearers to assisting the media. The volunteer fee is $55 and includes:

• Two official tournament golf shirts
• Tournament hat
• Volunteer badge valid for week-long tournament access and parking
• Four weekly grounds tickets for guests
• Invitation to the volunteer appreciation part
• Meals and beverages during assigned shifts

Organizers need an estimated 800 volunteers this year.

KENT COUNTY, Mich.—The search for Kent Intermediate School District’s next superintendent is down to two people.

After the first round of interviews this week, the Kent ISD School board whittled down the pool of four finalists to two- Ron Caniff, superintendent of Grandville Public Schools; and Tom Martin, superintendent of West Ottawa Public Schools.  Superintendents Dr. Curtis Finch of the Mecosta-Osceola ISD and Dr. Sara Magana Shubel of East Grand Rapids Public Schools were not selected for second round interviews.

Caniff and Martin will be interviewed a second time Tuesday, March 31.  The person selected for the job will replace Kevin Konarska, who is retiring on June 30, after nine years of leading Kent ISD.

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Comstock Park Rotary is hosting the annual Interclub dinner, on Tuesday, March 17, 2015, at the Pepsi Stadium Club at Fifth-Third Ball Park.  The event will feature a sneak preview of a new documentary which tells stories from the all-American girls’ professional baseball team. 

Dr. Jim Smither, Grand Valley State University, Veterans History Project, tells how the league was part of the home front during World War II and how this led to the documentary on baseball. The collaborators participated in two reunions of the whole girls’ professional baseball league and did 48 interviews with former players including the Grand Rapids Chicks. 

This documentary is a collaboration of Professor Jim Smither, GVSU, Professor Frank Boring, GVSU Film & Video program, producer working with the editors, Professor Janet Coryell, Western Michigan University History Dept. who wrote the script, and a student editor.