INSPIRING NEW POEM FOR WINTER BY POET LAUREATE ALAN YOUNT

Another inspiring gem from my favorite poet, classmate Alan Yount, compliments of www.jerryjazzmusician.com  ENJOY and thank you Alan for making KHS65 look so good!  The visual of your lips bleeding is strong, I imagine I'll think of this as I am exercising and it's getting difficult, and I'll have the umph to carry on! 

A Trumpet Break Through: Which Can Happen With Any Horn Or Ax
…………………………………….For: Dominic and Aurora Lewis
it’s tough
in jazz
to play better
as in doing
anything else better.
*****
while in high school
(my lips bled red
several times
on the silver of the mouthpiece),
just trying to reach
high notes on the trumpet.
*****
so, sometimes … when practicing
more & more & more
nothing inches forward …
*****
then one day, you hear
stay with it! stay with it!
it’s that great gnarly
sweat of jazz … when you discover
a certain sound
and know there’s a magic in this.
*****
if you once
play into a“break through”
you will never
stop practicing,
and believing in yourself:
to play better
for ever.
.
by Alan Yount
.
.

HONOR FOR ANOTHER KHS65 MEMBER

Kirkwood-Des Peres Chamber Awards Gala Set For Feb. 7

• Jan 31, 2020

Join the Kirkwood-Des Peres Area Chamber of Commerce on Friday, Feb. 7, for the 74th Annual Installation and Awards Gala, presented by Mutual of Omaha, at the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac Hotel, 1335 S. Lindbergh Blvd.,
This year’s award recipients are:
Businesspersons of the Year Award The Miller Group 
Chamber Legacy Award Jim Wright, former president/CEO of the Kirkwood-Des Peres Area Chamber of Commerce
Citizen Of The Year Award Paul Ward, former Kirkwood City Council member
Commitment To Community Award  Peggy Schneider, Sam’s Club Crestwood
Lifetime Achievement Award Don Stream, Streams Tax Service
Volunteer Of The Year Award Kirk Faubel, Country Financial

Here is the actual article in the Webster Kirkwood Times about Don:

SAYING GOOD-BYE TO A BELOVED CLASSMATE

Sharon Lowe Zieroth died yesterday morning, February 7, 2020.  Poor Sharon suffered a stroke several years ago thus changing the course of the rest of her life.  She and her twin Karen would have been another year older on 2/18 and Karen had gone to CA to be with her sister at the end of her long, valiant struggle with the after-effects of the stroke.  Sharon and Gary, her amazing saint of a husband, have two children and two grands, Sharon was a serious diabetic from early young-womanhood and had trouble conceiving a child, so she and Gary adopted a wonderful boy, and not long afterward Sharon became pregnant and they then had a darling baby girl.   The Lowe family has always been and still is a closely knit, loving family.  Sharon and Karen were my first grade school friends when we returned from a 3 year stint in Wichita, on February 4, 1955, mid second grade for us gals.  They lived just around the bend from us on Horseshoe Drive in Sugar Creek Ranch.  My memories of our little girlhood are strong and happy.  Sharon and Gary had a wonderful life, raised wonderful children and were devoted to their whole family.  Sharon is no longer suffering and her family can finally let her go knowing she is now in a much better place.  Everyone will miss Sharon, an adorable, funny, devoted, caring, unselfish loving daughter, sister of 3, mother of 2, devoted wife and treasured friend.  I'm sure Karen will love hearing from anyone who would like to contact her.  She is on Facebook and lives in Kirkwood, contact me for specific information of desired.

CLICK HERE FOR HER OBITUARY