The American Red Cross is looking for volunteers and blood donors. To ensure that the Red Cross has enough volunteers to continue responses to local and national disasters, the agency invites West Michigan residents to become trained volunteers. Classes are being offered across the region beginning in September. If you are interested in volunteering for the Red Cross, and receiving the training necessary to help out in your community and across the country, call 1-800-482-2411 for more information.

A Detroit-area business owner was among 13 people arrested as part of a two-year federal probe into the theft and transport of luxury rental cars and sport utility vehicles from the United States to Canada for shipment and sale in Iraq. Adnan Hana was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and transportation of stolen goods.

Changes to Grand Haven Area Public Schools' bus policy for the new year is giving city officials and school administrators a chance to showcase their efforts in making a Safe Routes to School program a reality for children attending Mary A. White Elementary School and Lakeshore Middle School. "Safe Routes to School is naturally (about) increasing awareness about healthy behavior and getting kids to walk to school,' Mary A. White Elementary School

The Michigan Public Service Commission will host a series of utility consumer information and assistance forums throughout the state from late September through early November. A forum will be held in Grand Haven on Thursday, Nov. 3. It will take place at the Grand Haven Community Center, 421 Columbus Ave., beginning at 6 p.m. Other forums will be held in the Upper Peninsula on Sept. 27-28, Grayling on Sept. 29, Lansing on Oct. 6, Ypsilanti on Oct. 12 and Hamtramck on Nov. 2. For more information, call Joel Roseberry at 517-373-1540.

"International Connections: Selected Works of Art from the David W. Baas Collection' brings together aesthetically and culturally diverse objects from India, Yemen, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Africa and Southeast Asia. The exhibition runs through Oct. 23 in the Wiener Gallery at the Muskegon Museum of Art, 296 W. Webster Ave. in downtown Muskegon.

The president of the West Michigan Strategic Alliance said Tuesday that he will resign from the post, effective at the end of the year. Greg Northrup was named the president of the nonprofit regional planning agency in late 2005. In a press release Tuesday, Northrup said he is pursuing several alternative energy project options. Ottawa County Administrator Al Vanderberg, chairman of the alliance's Board of Directors, said the organization made significant progress under Northrup's leadership.