Bloomington North Rotary

Wayne Allbright --Stone Creek Ranch--
2025-03-27 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Stone Creek Ranch is a full-service horse ranch that offers something for every horse lover – whether first-time rider or experiences competitor. The owners are Wayne and Jen Allbright. They offer lessons, leasing, boarding, training, and more!!!
*45 acres of beautiful pastures with a creek running through each
*12 miles of on-property trails
*22 acre confidence course and trotting track
*An outdoor arena
*2 round pens
*Spacious stalls
*Wash racks
*Trailer parking
and of course, many wonderful horses!
They are open seven days a week, year-round, from 8 am – 5 pm to the public and open to boarders and leasers anytime.

The Village Woodturners - Dave Cosentino
2025-04-03 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Dave Consentino began woodturning as a creative outlet over 25 years ago. Since retiring, he has been able to devote more time to it. He enjoys the challenge of designing a piece when starting with a freshly harvested log and seeing where the wood takes me. His workshop is located in the Bloomington Indiana area.
The Village Woodturners have been around for a little over 15 years. It is a group of wood turning professionals and hobbyists dedicated to the promotion of wood turning and providing education to anyone interested in the craft. They are based in Bloomington but also serve several surrounding counties. They are a local chapter of the American Association of Woodturners, a worldwide organization!

Jen Allbright, Behavior Therapist --Positive Behaviors--
2025-04-17 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Jen holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary and Special Education as well as a Masters in Applied Behavior Analysis. She was a Special Education Teacher for 8 years and has worked as a Behavior Consultant for 7 years. Positive Behaviors was a dream of Jen’s that turned into a vision, that turned into a wonderful program. She wants to share love, compassion, and appreciation for others while sparkling an endless love of learning and self-pursuit. Her website is https://www.positivebehaviors.org/

April Haskett, RN, BSN, SANE, SRAS Exec Director, Hope Resource Center
2025-04-24 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Hope Resource Center is a pregnacy care center & medical clinic. It has been a vital part of the Bedford community for over 36 years. Their mission is to GUIDE, EMPOWER, and EQUIP individuals facing unplanned pregnancies. April will be sharing with us all about the work they do, who they partner with.
In her letter, she said she would be honored to have the Rotary Club as a partner in a mission to provide care, compassion, and hope to families in crisis.

Ron Osgood - Sketchbook Artist who Documented The End of The Vietnam War
2025-05-01 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Although the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam in 1973, the war didn’t end until the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 (Fifty years and one day ago). In his 2023 documentary film “Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War,” Ron Osgood included stories from Vietnamese artists directly involved or impacted on what is called Reunification Day by some or Black Friday by others. This presentation will tell the stories from North Vietnamese Army sketchbook artist Pham Thanh Tam and Vietnamese college student/refugee artist Binh Pho on that significant day.

Gabe Coleman, Bloomington North Rotarian
2025-05-15 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
What has Gabe been up to lately? Come find out!

John Whikehart, President, Capital Improvement Board
2025-05-22 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
John Whikehart will be talking to us about tariffs, parking, hotels for convention center expansion
After almost a decade of delay and stalemate on the convention center expansion, the project is moving at ‘warp speed’ – due to the formation of a Capital Improvement Board. The center has a new name, design phase is done, and groundbreaking is scheduled for June.

Stride Crisis Center, Jennifer Scott, Certified Peer Support Professional
2025-05-29 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
The Stride Crisis Center is a mobile response team committed to accessing substance use treatment, detox, or impatient mental health care support with overall goals in harm reduction, overdose prevention, and suicide prevention care. They serve all individuals in need.
The Centerstone Stride mobile crisis response team was awarded the Outstanding Social Services Agency award in May 2025 by Mental Health of America Monroe Chapter at the Mental Health Gala award ceremony.
Be sure to join us to hear about this much needed team and hear their stories!

Robyn Peffinger - Bloomington Animal Shelter Manager - Foster Program Coordinator
2025-06-05 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Why foster?

Provide a temporary home for animals who:

Have specialized needs, (e.g. nursing moms, orphaned puppies/kittens, cats with an upper respiratory infection, dogs with kennel cough, cats/dogs with minor injuries, animals with behavioral issues);
Animals who need extra socialization or training to help them find their forever homes;
Animals who do not show well in a kennel on the adoption floor;
All other animals who are awaiting adoption.

Allows animals to receive more hands on time and care than we can offer in the shelter;
Offers animals the chance to decompress outside of the shelter before going into their forever homes;
Experience the joy of animal companionship without the lifetime commitment;
Help free up space in the shelter so we can help more animals in the community.

Ryan Zaricki, Owner Whole Sun Designs, Bloomington North Rotary Club Member
2025-06-12 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Ryan Zaricki will be speaking to us about his recent travels. We thank him for sharing his travels with us! Looking forward to it Ryan!

Passing of the Gavel. Great Job Adam Beasley! Looking forward to Dick Mellinger as our new incoming President!
2025-06-19 11:30 - 13:00 | IN
Let’s all come together to celebrate with Adam Beasley and the amazing past year as well as welcoming Dick Mellinger as our new incoming President. Dick will share his goals for 2025-2026.

Rotary Youth Exchange Program. Chair, Dr. Ron Dempsey.
2025-06-26 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
This will be a great program hearing what is going on with our Rotary Youth Exchange Program. Dr. Dempsey has been a Rotarian since 2001 and has been a member of seven Rotary Clubs in four states.
He serves a President of the Rotary Club of Gibson County. He is currently the District 6580 as Chair of the Rotary Youth Exchange Program.

No Meeting for Long Holiday Weekend
2025-07-03 | IN

Stephanie Shelton
2025-07-10 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Stephanie is going to share with our club a new educational event on July 26th called Survivor Summit. She is also going to share the plans for this Octobers paint the town Pink for Hoosiers Outrun Cancer.

Phyllis Emerick
2025-07-17 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

ChatGPT----What is it and how does it work? Jeremy Earle will be joining us to tell us just enough to confuse us more!!!!
2025-07-24 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
I recently had lunch with Jeremy Earle and Elizabeth Moore from Sherwood Oaks Christian Church. Our conversation included a talk about ChatGPT. What???? Jeremy is currently in charge of Executive Operations at SOCC but has been with the church for over 17 years.
From WIKIPEDIA…
ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the American company OpenAI and launched in 2022. It is based on large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o. ChatGPT can generate human-like conversational responses and enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language.[2] It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, an ongoing period of rapid investment in and public attention to the field of artificial intelligence (AI).[3] Some observers have raised concern about the potential of ChatGPT and similar programs to displace human intelligence, enable plagiarism, or fuel misinformation.[4][5]
I can’t wait to hear him speak. Please join us!

MCCSC Foundation Executive Director - Cyrilla Helm
2025-08-07 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Cyrilla will be sharing how our grant to buy books for the middles school library has been going this past year and what she hopes to do next year.

DG Kari Akin
2025-08-14 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

New Member Orientation - Zoom
2025-08-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
If you are new to Rotary and want to learn more about this amazing organization you have just joined, we hope you will sign up. The facilitator is Linda Simmons from the Greensburg Rotary Club.
Ask Bryan to register you.

Chris Herring - PALS
2025-08-21 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Leslie Abshier - ED of the Boys and Girls Club
2025-08-28 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Lindsay Hill - IU Health Injury Prevention Coordinator
2025-09-04 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
IU Health Trauma Services department sponsors a free class to encourage personal mobility safeness. This is intended to decrease traffic in the emergency rooms.

Jim Wiltz - Buddy walk Board Member
2025-09-11 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
https://www.downsyndromefamilyconnection.org/buddy-walk.html

Woodie Bessler - Solar for all
2025-09-18 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Neva Reyes - IU Rotaract President
2025-09-25 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Jamie Neibel - Director of Emergency Management - Monroe County
2025-10-02 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Noah Jager, Rotary Global Scholar
2025-10-09 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
Hometown: Bloomington, IN
Undergrad school/major: U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
Grad school: King’s College London, will receive a master’s degree in International Peace and Security from King’s College London.
Area of focus: Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention.
Host club: Rotary Club of Golders Green, District 1130, London
More info: After receiving his master’s degree from King’s College, Noah will serve as an officer in the U.S. Army for a minimum of five years on active duty and three years in the reserves. In his first duty position, Noah will serve as a Military Intelligence Officer specializing in strategic intelligence
After serving in this role, he hopes to become a Foreign Area Officer (FAO), providing liaison with countries in an assigned region through policymaking, military cooperation, and community engagement.
Later, Noah plans to return to Indiana where he will practice law and serve in the Indiana National Guard. Ultimately, he plans to serve the needs of Hoosiers by serving in the U.S. Congress.
Noah was chosen for the first-ever all-Indiana Rotary Global Scholarship, sponsored by Districts 6540, 6560 and 6580.
He has attended Bloomington Sunrise and Bloomington Rotary events.
High school: Noah attended Bloomington High School South where he worked hard academically and excelled athletically, helping the South basketball team go 26-0 in his senior year. Along with his passion for basketball, Noah developed a love for theatre and he performed lead roles in “Guys and Dolls” and in “Beauty and the Beast.” Also, he helped his high school raise more than $165,000 for Riley Children’s Hospital as an executive morale officer.

Fall Break - No Meeting
2025-10-16 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Pablo Fuentes - Creating Connections & Community in New Places
2025-10-23 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States

Talisha Coppock - Downtown Bloomington ED
2025-10-30 11:30 - 13:00 | Crazy Horse, 214 W. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47404, United States
