{"id":29710,"date":"2012-07-26T20:50:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=29710"},"modified":"2012-07-26T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:50:31","slug":"mint-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/mint-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Entry deadline for tennis tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwanis Mintfest, August 1<!--more--><br \/>\nOne of the long-established events on the annual Mint Festival program is the St. Johns Kiwanis sponsored tennis tournament. Players from across Michigan sign up to compete and long-time chair, Chris Bouck, anticipates another full slate.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had inquiries about the tournament this year, which always is encouraging,\u201d he said. \u201cAs in the past, we expect both men\u2019s and women\u2019s categories to be full.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd, while is seems a way off, deadline for registration is Aug. 1, just a little over three weeks away. Sign-ups may be completed by mail. Forms may be obtained from Briggs Public Library, St. Johns Chamber of Commerce, City of St. Johns Recreation Dept. or printed on line at <a href=\"http:\/\/mmrn.org\/tennis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mmrn.org\/tennis<\/a>.<br \/>\nRegistration fees, payable before play, are Singles, $20.00 plus one can of new tennis balls; Doubles, $30.00 per team plus two cans of new tennis balls per team. A week-end parking pass will be $4.00. Parking and general entry must be approached from Townsend Road access.<br \/>\nRegistrations by mail may be sent to \u201cTournament Director, Chris Bouck, 505 E. Higham, St. Johns, MI 48879. (Ph: 989 224-1921.<br \/>\nAs in previous years, play will be the best of three sets and the breaks at six games all. Entries will be limited to to two of three possible divisions.<br \/>\nSingles divisions include boys 12-14 and 15-18. The same age levels will apply to girls groupings.<br \/>\nAge groups for both men and women are 19-34 and 35 and over.<br \/>\nDoubles divisions for boys are ages 12-14 and 15-18. Girls age divisions are the same. For both men and women, one age group prevails, 19 and over.<br \/>\nSchedule of play will be as follows: Friday August 10, A.M. All Juniors; P.M. female doubles and male singles. Saturday Auggust 11, Male doubles; female singles and mixed doubles. Sunday August 12, doubles finish.<br \/>\nAll entrants, singles or doubles, will receive a commemorative T-shirt identifying the St. Johns Kiwanis 2012 Terry Cornwell Tennis Tournament, conducted in memory of Mr. Cornwell a popular high school counselor taken early in life by diabetes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwanis Mintfest, August 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mint"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29710","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=29710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}