Summer must be winding down a little bit on the Point; parties galore, our annual JPVIS tennis tournament, and travels, including our own Betty and Ted Repa exploring the great state of Maine.

JPVIS will hold a first ever open house on Saturday, Aug. 19 from 1-4 p.m. at the Community House and tennis courts to show off our community to anyone who would like to find out more about life on the Point. So please come over and join us. All are welcome.

We had a fantastic week of tennis at the JPVIS Aug. 6-13 culminating with the Ladies Doubles on Sunday afternoon. Congratulations to the finalists in the Women's Doubles Championship Tournament: Emily Whiting, Jessica Dumphy, Anne Cataldo and Tracy Robinson. This year's winners of the Women's Doubles Tournament are Emily Whiting and Jessica Dumphy. Dave Taylor presented beautiful crystal wine glasses engraved with the Juniper Point logo to all finalists. Each team advanced to the finals as Ann and Tracy upended defending champions, Cammie Beattie and Barb Gray, and Emily and Jessica defeated the team of Jose McCommiskey and Kristen Gray in a super tie breaker (10-7) after splitting the first two sets.

The Junior Doubles tournament involved five teams competing in a round robin format. Emma Mansourian and Soren Zimmer advanced to the finals and played against Devin Pai and Clay Kynor on Friday afternoon. After losing the first set 6-1, Clay and Devin came back to win the second set 6-0 and took the title by winning the super tiebreaker 10-5. Also competing in the tournament were the teams of Jackson Emery and Oliver Mansourian, Gus McGee and Sebastian Rubel, and Buck and Ryan Lewis. In the Junior Singles draw, Devin also showed his skills, advancing through a field of 10 other juniors to win the finals against Buck Lewis 6-1, 6-0. Ryan Lewis played against Jackson Emery in the singles consolation final and won 8-6. Other participants were Sawyer Barnard, Gus McGee, Emma Mansourian, Buck Lewis, Oliver Mansourian, Clay Kynor, Sebastian Rubel, and Soren Zimmer.

The Women's Singles tournament was held last Tuesday evening, the first since 2005. Cammie Beattie was the finalist and Andrea Nevins was the winner in a round robin style tournament with four players.

The Mixed Doubles Tournament on Thursday evening was a fun night with eight teams participating. Debbie Smith and Dan Hazelton took on Kristin Gray and Stu Syndman in the final match of the night to win the title. Following the tennis matches, the teams enjoyed wine, beer, and cheese and crackers on the patio adjacent to the tennis courts.

Dave Taylor’s tennis clinics run through Aug. 25, so please ask him for details: 1-860-655-3062. Sadly, we said good-bye to our Assistant Tennis Director, Susan Kirby, who is headed back to Florida for her “winter tennis pro” job. She will be missed. This author finally took a brief tennis lesson from her and both wondered why she hadn’t taken lessons all summer with Susan!

Bob Stuart tells me that there was an interesting  musical event at the Stuart cottage last Thursday evening. It started with a tasty buffet dinner, which benefited from the variety of dishes provided by the attendees. Tim Hankins, Mary Nutt’s husband, performed on the guitar and banjo, playing and singing a variety of bluegrass and Sixites era tunes. The music was enhanced by Tim’s informative and humorous repartee. A. J. Racy, Professor of Ethno-music at UCLA, provided a mixture of explanation and demonstration of a variety of Middle Eastern wind and string instruments followed by a performance of some typical compositions and some of  A.J.’s originals. Very mystical and beautiful, quite different from Tim’s bluegrass. 

Anne Dooley’s cottage was brimming over with family. Carl and Angie Dooley, their 10-month-old daughter, Maria, and Angie’s mother, Gail Milton, filled up the new porch at Firefly on a perfect Sunday, Carl’s day off from his restaurant, The Table, in Cambridge. While Maria’s parents caught up with Denny and Chrissie Whitten, she shared her playpen with 15-month-old Fletcher, great-grandson of George Whitten. Some of the Anne’s family had to stay in Lee’s FROG room - you will have to ask her what that is ... Next week, Ann Dooley and Horst Wittmann are off to Red Lodge, Montana, to visit a friend, see the solar eclipse, and do a little trail riding.

Rue Judd’s family were all here too to celebrate several August family birthdays – again some family members flooded over to Lee’s “winter cottage” as Rue’s house was stuffed with nine adults and children. Not to be outdone by her busy neighbors, Lee hosted a 70^th birthday party for Connie Evanofski, his extended family, and assorted “Hill” friends amounting to 24 folks dining on a sumptuous “shrimp bowl” prepared by Connie’s wife, Mary, on Lee’s lawn Sunday evening!

Ted and Betty Repa are off this week to complete in their final leg of the Downeast Magazine’s Great Maine Scavenger Hunt. They have chosen to complete 40 different activities during this summer.  This week they are attending the Acadian Festival in St. John Valley, celebrating the culture and traditions of the descendants of French settlers, at the closing night “tintammare,” a traditional Acadian parade in Madawaska, then traveling deep into the Allagash wilderness to find the Eagle Lake Locomotives, a hulking pair of turn-of-the-(20th-) century steam engines, marooned deep in the woods but in a clearing on the edge of Eagle Lake, and finally heading to Aroostook County to investigate its solar system and taking a selfie with the planet Neptune as the backdrop.

Unfortunately, no one has signed up to write the JPVIS column to submit to the Boothbay Register for the next two weeks. All the news that is fit to print regarding our Point activities next week must be submitted to news@boothbayregister.com by 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 21 and  28.  Any takers?