Masters and Wardens Meeting
The Masters and Wardens will meet at Jerusalem Temple Lodge on Monday July 9th at 7:30 p.m. Please note the change in starting time. The School of Instruction will henceforth be held on other evenings and locations around the District. It is important that all of our newly-elected Masters, Wardens, Deacons, and other officers in your line attend this meeting because we will be reviewing the 2/5/10 year forecasting initiative and how to do it. Please remember that these meetings and this newsletter are the primary coordination and communication venues in this District and each Lodge is responsible for the information disseminated therein . If your Lodge is not represented, the officers are still responsible for obtaining the information from other Lodges in attendance. Thus attendance is expected of Masters and Wardens but everyone is welcome to attend and we hope to see other elected and appointed officers there!

Masonic Development Course
The Masonic Development Course (MDC) will be offered in two sessons on Wednesday July 7th and Wednesday July 18th at Port Jervis Lodge. Both sessions will begin at 7:00 p.m. sharp! This course is a must for new and old Brothers alike but is especially useful for Brothers Raised within the last to years. Materials for the course, including a certificate and pin, are $20 and should be ordered in advance. For more information, please contact R:.W:. Dave Blasch.

Renegades Baseball Night
Jerusalem Temple Lodge will sponsor another outing to see the Hudson Valley Renegades play on Saturday July 28th. This year's outing will be special because it is being sponsored in conjunction with several veteran's organizations, and we will be arranging to have a group of disabled veterans from the Castle Point VA Hospital join us. The evening is $25 and includes admission to the game and all the hamburgers, cheeseburgers, hotdogs and chicken sandwiches you can eat along with soft drinks and the usual fixings. For more information, click here. We hope you can join us!

2007-2008 Individual Development Course (iDC)
Registration for next year’s Individual Development Course will be available soon. This course provides skills useful in every aspect of our lives and helps to develop us in our roles at work, our homes, our communities, and our Craft. The course focuses on personal skills such as time management, goal setting, and self-discipline; interpersonal skills such as public speaking, e-mail and written materials, dealing with difficult people, running effective meetings, and the group process; and other important skills such as problem and data analysis, brainstorming, surveys, and project management. These are skills that apply to all areas of our lives and next year’s course, scheduled to begin in September and run one Saturday a month for six months, will be open to spouses as well as Masons. We hope to see many of you take advantage of this important and very valuable opportunity. For more information, please contact the DDGM.

Orange-Rockland Central Chapter, Order of DeMolay
DeMolay is a Masonic youth program for boys ages 12-21, which teaches leadership within a fun, moral framework in line with our own principles and tenets. The local Chapter, which meets at Wallkill Lodge in Walden, is in desperate need of advisors, Brothers willing to give up a few hours a month to mentor and work with these inspiring young men. There’s no commitment required to obtain information, give us a call and see what it’s all about. For more information, please contact R:.W:. Hank Stoveland.

Child ID System
The District Child ID System is available to Lodges who have two Brothers trained in its use. These Brothers may sign out the system by contacting Wor. Robert Morlang, Jr.. Please allow a month in advance to reserve the system and allow the District Committee to order the necessary supplies for your program. Please remember that all unused materials must be returned with the system, there is to be no stockpiling of supplies for future programs.

Thank You ORDMA!
We would like to thank the Orange-Rockland District Masonic Association for their generous donation of $500 toward a second Child ID system. We still have a ways to go, anyone wishing to make a donation should contact Wor. Robert Morlang, Jr.

Next ORDMA Meeting
The next meeting of the Orange-Rockland District Masonic Association (ORDMA) will be held in September. Have a great summer!

2007-2008 Calendars
ORDMA is collecting dates for next year's District Pocket Calendar, which will be available in early Fall 2007. These handy pocket calendars contain all of our District's Lodge and Concordant Bodies meetings, important events, Lodge and District officers, and directions to our Lodges. The calendars cost $5 each and the proceeds go to support our District's community service and charitable efforts, including our new District child ID system. To submit events for inclusion in the calendar, please contact any of ORDMA's officers.