{"id":16842,"date":"2010-07-15T20:52:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T00:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=16842"},"modified":"2010-07-15T20:52:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T00:52:57","slug":"kiwanis-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/kiwanis-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer heat no deterrent to tennis registrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10july\/tennisth.jpg' alt='image.jpg' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left' \/>For the eleventh consecutive year, St. Johns Kiwanis Club<!--more--> members coordinating the annual Mint Festival Tennis Tournament anticipate an increase in contestant registrations at all levels of competition.\u00a0 \u201cWe thought the recent heat wave might have discouraged some players,\u201d commented Chris Bouck, \u201cbut we\u2019re most pleased with the number of registrations to date.\u201d\u00a0 Bouck is coordinating the tournament for Kiwanis, which has become a memorial to Terry Cornwell, a long time Kiwanis member and high school counselor whose life was taken by diabetes.<br \/>\nThis year\u2019s tournament will follow closely the structure of previous years over the span of the festival Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 13-15. Competition at all levels will take place at the high school tennis courts.<br \/>\nBouck explained that both singles and doubles competition will be held in a number of divisions including boys 12-14, 15-18; girls 12-14, 15-18 and men and women 19-34 and over 35. \u00a0 In doubles competition, the divisions are boys 12-14, 15-18, girls 12-14, 15-18; men and women 19 and over.\u00a0 A mixed doubles category will be held if sufficient entries are received.<br \/>\nCompetition is scheduled to begin Friday morning for all juniors followed in the afternoon for female doubles and male singles.\u00a0 On Saturday, male doubles, female singles and mixed doubles will be held.\u00a0 Doubles finish on Sunday will put a wrap on the tournament.<br \/>\nEntry fees for the tournament are $20.00 for singles plus one can of new tennis balls. \u00a0 Doubles entry fee is $30 per team plus two cans of new tennis balls per team.\u00a0<br \/>\nRegistration must be completed by Wednesday Aug. 4, 2010 either on line at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MMRN.org\/tennis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.MMRN.org\/tennis<\/a> or by securing forms in St. Johns at Briggs Public Library, Chamber of Commerce or at St. Johns Recreation Department.\u00a0 All forms, on line or pick up, should be returned to Bouck at 505 E. Higham St., St. Johns, MI 48879.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10july\/tennis.jpg' alt='image.jpg' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-center' \/><br \/>\n <em>Trisha Bellgowan, left, and Sam Miller plan to get some net time in while preparing for the annual Mint Festival Tennis Tournament sponsored by the St. Johns Kiwanis Club.\u00a0 This will be Trisha\u2019s fourth competition while Sam will be entering for her first effort.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the eleventh consecutive year, St. Johns Kiwanis Club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}