Bloomington North Rotary

Tom Rillo - Lessons from 41 years in Financial Advising
2026-01-15 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
1) What is a “financial advisor”?
2) Changes in the industry over my 41 year career
3). Strangest things I’ve seen clients do with their $

Detective Robert Shrake - Senior Police Officer
2026-01-22 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Detective Shrake primarily works financial crimes for the last 6 or so years. He will discuss some of the trends that we are seeing with fraud and identity theft, how to best avoid being taken advantage of and what to do if it happens. It impacts us all and no one is immune to it.

Madi Hirschland - Electrify Indiana
2026-01-29 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Madi is working with Bloomington Energy Works program to promote heat pumps and electrification of the City of Bloomington.

Chris Quackenbush & Chad Teders - Teders Quackenbush Wealth Management
2026-02-05 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Ross Grimes - MCCSC School Board VP
2026-02-12 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Loren Wood - Loren Wood Builders
2026-02-19 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Nicole Brown - Monroe County Clerk
2026-02-26 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Aubrey Seader - Off Night Productions
2026-03-05 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Jordan Basye - Transfer Portal & NIL
2026-03-12 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Spring Break - No Meeting
2026-03-19 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Zach Dweil - Terran Robotics
2026-03-26 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Tim Street - Dir of Bloomington Parks and Recreation
2026-04-02 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Ryan Still - Bloomington Housing Authority
2026-04-09 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Gary Taylor - Prophets for Profit
2026-04-16 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Prof Shirin Hassan - Low Vision Study
2026-04-30 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Ralf (Debora) Shaw / League of Women Voters
2026-05-07 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Chuck Prestinari - Fieldtrip to First United Methodist to hear Organ
2026-05-14 11:30 - 13:00 | First United Methodist, 219 East 4th Street, Bloomington, IN, 47408, United States

Mitch Gudmundson - Logistics of a Championship
2026-05-21 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Mary Coniaris - A Journey through Dance
2026-05-28 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Mary will be sharing a personal look at her 45-year journey in dance — from the Urban Cowboy era in Houston to building Bloomington Dance Connections here in our community. Along the way, she’ll talk about how dance creates connection, belonging, and participation for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Elise Frost - Embodied Resilience: The Role of Oncology Massage and Movement in Times of Change
2026-06-04 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Elise Frost, MFA, LMT, CMLDT, is a trained oncology massage therapist and movement educator. In this presentation, she will explore the clinical benefits of oncology massage therapy, explain why working with a trained oncology massage therapist matters, and demonstrate how embodied movement practices can provide essential support when navigating significant life transitions.

Adam Long
2026-06-11 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Josh Brewer - Cicada Cinema
2026-06-18 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Josh Brewer is co-founder and president of Cicada Cinema, a nonprofit organization in Bloomington focusing on building community through the movie-going experience. Josh manages all aspects of Cicada’s operations from booking films, promotion, community outreach, running tech and volunteer coordination.

Since Cicada’s first screening in 2016, Cicada Cinema worked with 45 community partners and 33 local venues to bring over 300 under-seen and under-screened movies to the Bloomington community via a pop-up cinema model. Now, we’re ready to do something bigger – opening a community movie theater!

Julie Thomas - New prospective county jail update
2026-06-25 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Bryan Hane - Our Year in Review
2026-07-02 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
As Bryan closes out his fourth term as President he will go over what all we achieved as a club this last year.

Brandon Barrett - New President's Plans
2026-07-09 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Matt Millies - District Governor Visit
2026-07-16 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Jordan Davis - Taste of Bloomington
2026-07-23 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Jordan Davis, Director of Operations at the Chocolate Moose, will join us to discuss the Taste of Bloomington. After several years off, Jordan revived the Taste of Bloomington last year with a new model that resonated with the community and resulted in 20k attendees and over $250k in economic impact. Learn what changed, what he learned, and what lies ahead for this year’s and future Taste events.

Dave Askin - Putting the Public at the Center of the Civic Solar System
2026-07-30 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
The B Square Bulletin’s “Total News” framework reimagines local journalism as something more than a factory producing widgets called news stories. It fuses Future, Present and Past into a civic information platform that connects what is coming, what is happening now, and what has already happened. Information systems once kept inside newsrooms become public civic assets—which is a pardigm shift on the scale of the Copernican revolution.

Sara Laughlin - Teachers Warehouse: Update on One of Rotary's Most Impactful Projects
2026-08-06 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Erin Loughery - Tandem
2026-08-13 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Erin will give and overview of Tandem’s services and our annual impacts on over 600 families in our community. Additionally, she’ll focus in on our Food for Families program and our Rotary partnership to bring that to our community.
