Monday

-- McLean County Republican Party monthly breakfast; 7-8:15 a.m., DoubleTree Hotel & Conference Center, Bloomington; $7; speakers: McLean County clerk candidate forum.

-- Senior GameFest; 2 p.m., Bloomington Public Library Community Room.

-- “Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire” with National Teacher of the Year Award winner Rafe Esquith; 7 p.m., Braden Auditorium, Illinois State University; part of ISU’s Fall 2009 Speaker Series.

-- Barn Keepers annual meeting; 7 p.m., McLean County Farm Bureau, 402 N. Hershey Road, Bloomington; program: photographer Larry Kanfer about his book, “Barns of Illinois.”

Tuesday

-- Lapsit for Infants; 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Bloomington Public Library Story Room; for parents and infants up to 18 months old.

-- Eureka  Rotary; noon, Eureka College Cerf Center; with Sheriff  Jim  Pierceall, Woodford County, on “4-H  Shooting  Sports Program.”

-- Rules of the Road Review course; 1 p.m. Nov. 17, Farm Bureau (U of I Extension), Conference Room, 402 N. Hershey Road, Bloomington.

-- McLean County Genealogical Society; 7 p.m., McLean County Museum of History, 200 N. Main St., Bloomington; topic: “Things My Mother or Father Told Me” and installation of officers and directors; 309-454-2688.

-- Fieldcrest Has Talent!, variety show; 7 p.m., Antioch Christian Church, Toluca; Fieldcrest High School chorus; $5 at door; 309-432-2529.

Wednesday

-- 2009 Geographic Information Systems Day event “Cooperative Resource Management”; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., McLean County Government Center, 115 E. Washington St., Bloomington; free; 11 a.m. signing of GIS Day proclamation.

-- Preschool Story time; 10 a.m., Bloomington Public Library Story Room; for ages 3 to 5.

-- Little Wonders: Danger, Danger!!! Program; 10 to 11:30 a.m. or 1 to 2:30 p.m., Sugar Grove Nature Center, Funks Grove; for 3 to 5 year-olds with an adult chaperone; $5-7; 309-874-2174.

-- Sights and Sounds of the Lakota; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Illinois Wesleyan University Robert S. Eckley Quadrangle; 11 a.m. raising of a tipi; noon to 3 p.m. preparing tipi interior; 3 to 5 p.m. Lakota Teachings; and 5 to 6 p.m., Spirit of the Rainbow Drum & Dancers.

-- First Rural McLean and Livingston County Senior Expo; noon to 4 p.m., Chenoa United Methodist Church; 815-945-7155.

-- “The United Nations and the United States: Controversy and Opportunity – Where do we go from here?”; noon to 1 p.m., Bone Student Center, Illinois State University; speaker: Gillian Sorensen, United Nations Foundation.

-- Mid Central Community Action general meeting; 6:30 to 7 p.m., 1301 W. Washington St., Bloomington.

-- “International Intervention in Humanitarian Crises: Balancing Nations’ Sovereign Power and Human Rights”; 7 p.m., Bone Student Center, Illinois State University; presented by Gillian Sorensen, senior advisor and national advocate at the United Nations Foundation; sponsors, League of Women Voters of McLean County, ISU’s Global Review Student Association and ISU’s International Studies Seminar Series.