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Subject: Hudson one Mensch poorer...

Author:
Ned Depew

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Date Posted: 10:15:22 01/26/07 Fri

My former neighbor, Kevin Walsh, was one of the good things about Hudson. He reminded me of what I first liked about the City when I arrived here alone and unknown in the early 1960s. He was friendly and forthright, accepting and tolerant, thoughtful, generous and hardworking.

Although he could be tough when he needed to be, he found ways to make things work so that he rarely needed to be. He was creative and effective in his job as Treasurer, reducing a nearly ten-year backlog of unpaid taxes with grace and ease - and only a very few complaints - and putting Hudson's fiscal house in order for the first time in most of a century!

From everything I could see, he was a good father to his boys and gave them a good start in the world. Of course it is so sad and difficult for them to lose him, but with the example he set for them and the respect and love he gave them I believe they are well prepared for their own life-journeys.

Sad too for Hudson - losing a "public servant" who really understood and appreciated the meaning of that term - who was essentially above the petty political stuff that makes up the worst of Hudson politics. It's a great blow. There are few like him. I'm proud to have known him, and Hudson is lucky to have had him. May we all go on learning from him.

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