Walden Quarterly

WALDEN
Volume VII // Issue 1
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VILLAGE OF WALDEN

MEMORIAL DAY PARADE

WALDEN MUNICIPAL SQUARE

MAY 28, 2018

COMMENCING AT THE VETERAN’S MEMORIAL BRIDGE
AT 10:00AM

AND PROCEEDING TO THE MUNICIPAL SQUARE

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
AMERICAN LEGION
AMVETS

WALDEN FIRE DEPARTMENT
VILLAGE OF WALDEN & TOWN OF MONTGOMERY
ALL THE SERVICE & FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SCOUTS

Please join us on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 2018 in Walden’s Municipal Square to honor the
memory of our fallen comrades and defenders of our Nation.

The parade will commence at 10:00AM and we hope that you, your family, your friends and your
organization will be able to participate in this solemn event.

Please contact Bill Kirnan at (845) 591-9682 if you have any questions.

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TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH

“VANITY OF VANITIES, ALL IS VANITY!”
Do you ever think that if you could have everything you ever wanted, then your life would
be void of problems and you’d find the purpose or meaning you’ve been missing? Of course
you’ve thought that! We all have. It’s part of being human. We yearn for meaning and purpose, constantly seeking ways to
fix problems. And if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably come to the conclusion that ‘having it all’ would permanently
fix your life. If you’ve ever felt like that, you’re not alone.
There was a man who “had it all,” or, literally, everything ‘under the sun.’ King Solomon of ancient Israel is estimated by
some scholars to have carried an estimated net worth of what would be equivalent to 2.2 trillion dollars today. That’s a lot
of cash, eh!? He writes about all of this in a book called “Ecclesiastes,” one of the books of the Bible. In it he shares how he
had all of the pleasure, money, and pursuits a person could ever ask for. In his own words he had “everything a man could
desire.” Yet, contrary to what most of us would think, Solomon doesn’t claim to find meaning, purpose, and joy through
any of those things. Rather he actually calls all things “Hevel,” or in English, “Vanity.” “VANITY OF VANITIES!” He
exclaims, “ALL IS VANITY!”
“Hevel” literally means smoke, or vapor. It appears to be there, but when you grab it, you can’t. The stuff he calls “hevel”
would surprise most humans because they are the very things most of us spend our lives pursuing: wealth, pleasure, careers, accomplishments,
promotion, honor, fame, and even wisdom! Solomon describes in depth how he intentionally set out to find the meaning of life in each of these things,
and yet he concludes that they are all ultimately “meaningless.”
Sounds crazy, right? I mean, let’s be honest. We’ve all heard it said that ‘money doesn’t buy happiness’, but if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably
said to yourself, “well. . . I’d sure love to find out for myself!” Right?! That’s the whole point of Solomon’s wisdom, however: none of those things will
ever satisfy! As a matter of fact, they often do quite the opposite . . . they leave you wanting more and more. That’s what Solomon eloquently tries
to help us realize in his complaint about the things we so often waste our energy on. Whether it is ill or well intended, all of the pursuits of man are
‘meaningless,’ or as Solomon said, like “chasing after the wind.” And here we are, a few thousand years later, pursuing the same ‘meaningless’ things,
trying to find purpose in this life in the same very same manner. Ecclesiastes reminds us over and over that ‘there is nothing new under the sun!’
So is it all really meaningless? What really brings meaning to the human life? If it’s not to accumulate wealth, or success in business, or excel in
academics, or innovate the next best technology that changes the way we do life, or however we spend our numbered days, then what is it?
Fortunately Solomon doesn’t leave us depressed and void of meaning. Through all of the ‘vanity’ that he describes, there remains this “Gift of God.”
This ‘Gift’ is not what we probably think it is. It’s not a guarantee of health, wealth, or comfort, or to gain meaning through them, but to simply…
enjoy the life we have! ‘To enjoy all of the meaningless pursuits of life under the sun,’ that is the Gift of God!” He describes this ‘gift’ of joy as being
like ‘a man who doesn’t even have time to reflect on his days because he is so preoccupied with the joy in his heart!’ If we’re being honest, who wouldn’t
want that? Imagine being consumed with joy each and every day, unburdened by the pursuits of this world and all its vanities?
I believe that ‘Gift of God’ is fulfilled by Jesus and His Gospel. Jesus gives us His joy when we ‘set our minds on things above,’ where Christ is. So while
Solomon and “us” type people can be found pursuing pleasure and purpose in the things ‘under the sun,’ Jesus urges us to find our true identity by
setting our hearts and minds ‘over the sun’. I believe that is where you and I will find joy in its truest form. Jesus invites us into our true purpose, our
true meaning by setting our hearts and minds where He is. When we align our identity in that manner, we can be born from above and made alive to
the things of God: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, self control, gentleness, and goodness.

The cure to the Vanity of Vanities done under the Sun is to abandon ourselves to the Holy of Holies over the sun where Jesus is.
Join us at Trinity on Sunday Nights from 6:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m. as we are currently studying the book of Ecclesiastes!
Raymond D. Cummings III
Youth Pastor, Trinity Church

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Student Angela
Tommasi (right)
with Instructor
Brenda Moore

ThE rOAd TO SUCCESS:

CTE Cosmetology Program Helps Student Find her Path

Angela Tommasi from Cornwall is a “We are proud to have Angela Angela is planning on pursuing an
high school senior and second year representing our Cosmetology additional certification in esthetics
Career and Technical Education (CTE) Program. She is one of the most at a local beauty school. Eventually,
student in the Cosmetology Program hardworking students I have met and Angela says she would like to teach
at Orange-Ulster BOCES, where she is totally focused. We can trust she cosmetology so she can “help change
has achieved great success and found will do her best and demonstrate true kids’ lives like Mrs. Moore did for me.”
much happiness. The CTE Center is professionalism,” Mrs. Moore said. Starting in mid-April, Angela will begin
“my happy place,” she said. “It has interning as an assistant to Mrs. Moore
changed me for the better. I’m more “It (CTE) has changed me during the afternoon session two days
professional and more confident for the better. I’m more a week.
about my work.” Angela feels she professional and more
owes a lot of that to her Cosmetology confident about The OU BOCES Cosmetology Program
instructor, Brenda Moore, who herself my work.” is an intensive two-year program that
is a graduate of the OU BOCES allows students to gain daily practical
Cosmetology Program. — Angela Tommasi experience working on other students
and, during the second year, have
Last year, Angela was selected After she completes her second year the opportunity to provide services
by the Cosmetology Program of the Cosmetology Program in June, to clients in a clinical setting at CTE.
teachers to compete in the SkillsUSA Angela will have met the required 1000 Students attend for two and a half
Championships, which are competitive hours of study and will be eligible to sit hours each day, either for the morning
events showcasing the best career and for the New York State Cosmetology or afternoon session.
technical education students. SkillsUSA Boards, which include written and
Contests begin locally and continue practical components. She will then Angela’s advice to students who
through the state and national levels. be licensed to practice cosmetology are considering attending the
In last year’s State Championship, in New York State. Cosmetology Cosmetology Program: “Go in with an
Angela finished in the top 25 percent includes natural hair styling, esthetics, open mind. It was different than what
of Cosmetology Junior competitors. nail specialty, waxing, and providing I thought. I was nervous about being
Angela was selected again this year services to the hair, head, face, neck with people I didn’t know, but I have
to represent OU BOCES, and will be or scalp. After high school graduation, made so many great friends,” she said.
competing in the Cosmetology Senior
competition in Syracuse.

Visit our website at ouboces.org to learn more about the great
opportunities OU BOCES provides for our region.
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WALDEN’S 32nd ANNUAL

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www.villageofwalden.org for the link to our

*ONLINE REGISTRATION*
Games will tentatively begin in June
and will take place at Bradley Park

(48 Albany Avenue)
Cost: Village of Walden Resident $40

Town of Montgomery Resident $50

Additional questions? Please call the
Recreation & Parks Department at

845-778-2177 x1524

*You can pay by Credit Card 24 hours a day, 7 days
per week from the comfort of home or you may still
mail in/drop off traditional payment (check/cash) to:
Village of Walden Recreation & Parks Department

1 Municipal Square
Walden, NY 12586



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WALDEN EASTER
EGG HUNT

By TARA BLISS | Photos by JOHN KIDD

Spring means our Annual Easter Egg Hunt held on
March 31, 2018 at the picturesque

James W. Olley Community Park and
complete with a visit from the Easter Bunny.

This year’s Golden Egg winners were:
0-4 age group: Eileen Frain, age 3; and Vince Villani, age 3

5-7 age group: Ashlyn Hofer, age 7;
and Elijah Croom, age 7

8-11 age group: Luke Hoffman, age 11;
and Olivia Kendrick, age 11

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