President’s Letter

By Jeff Janssen | Email
309-846-0250

Fox Point is alive with activity and neighbors are out and about as we enjoy this wonderful time of year.  Hopefully, you had an opportunity to experience the outstanding Summer Kick-Off Barbecue this Memorial Day weekend.  Families from throughout the neighborhood were able to gather and socialize while enjoying what has become one of our favorite annual events.  

The Fox Point Barbecue may merely have been the tip of the iceberg as we look to the variety of social and community building events scheduled for the rest of the summer.  The Fox Point Board and their respective committees are working hard to make this a summer to remember.  

In addition to the usual annual events such as the Fishing Derby (June 3rd) and 4th of July Pool Games, we will be offering several new events including Tennis & Tinis Round Robin Tournament (June 24th), Food Truck Fridays (June 9th & July 28th), and Breakfast at Wimbledon (July 16th).  

These are all great events and terrific opportunities to continue to build relationships with your friends and neighbors.  As you attend any of these upcoming events, please accept a personal challenge from me.  Instead of gravitating to your usual circle of friends, seek out someone you have yet to meet and introduce yourself.  You may be a welcoming smile to one of our newest neighbors.

The Fox Point Board met on May 15th to continue our work to make Fox Point an even better place to live.  We approved the painting of the playground equipment and the purchase of a couple new picnic tables.  We also had a request from the Barrington Water Polo Team to rent our pool for a few hours a week while the High School pool is being renovated.  In the spirit of building community with our surrounding village and recognizing that numerous Fox Pointers play on this team, we approved the request.  This request will not impose upon our regular scheduled pool hours our Fox Point residents.  Please join us at our next Fox Point Board meeting on June 19th at 7:00 pm at Village Church.

Let’s work together to ensure that our community continues to be an outstanding place to grow families; to build relationships, and to simply experience the blessings of life.  Please contact me if I can be of service to you.

Pool

By Horace Seely-Brown | Email

The Pool is open! We anticipate a great opening weekend and feedback on the new pool furniture. If you didn’t get a chance to hit the water, we hope to see you soon! 

The pool will certainly see its share of activity this summer with both the Barrington Swim Club and Barrington Water Polo team renting out pool time. The Board approved usage by both of these groups acting in a neighborly fashion to support our local organizations. 

In addition to the competitive team’s usage of the pool, we hope to see the younger generation take advantage of the swim team coaches availability for swim lessons. We have posted their contact information on Nextdoor, and hopefully, by now, those interested have had a chance to connect. 

With all of the planned activity, it will certainly be a busy season at the pool. Please find the general pool hours https://foxpointorg.wpengine.com/fox-point-pool/

We strive to make the pool experience a pleasant one for all ages and certainly welcome suggestions/comments to help us improve one of the greatest assets of the neighborhood. Please feel free to send any feedback my way!

Social

By Stephanie Paine | Email

Summer Kickoff BBQ Recap

Thanks for joining us for the Summer Kickoff BBQ! The weather held up for us and we enjoyed BBQ from Rock N Ribs in Lake Zurich and side dishes & desserts provided by neighbors. The winner of Best Side Dish was XX and Best Dessert was XX. A big thanks to the Postma and Cannon families for chairing the event.   

Upcoming Events: 

June 3 – Fishing Derby

The fishing derby is almost here – be sure to RSVP soon! This FREE event will take place at the Fox Point boat docks at 8:30 AM on June 3. Please bring your own fishing poles and goggles for the kids – Brian will provide live bait and snacks. Prizes will be awarded for the most fish and largest fish.

RSVP here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c48a8a92fa4fa7-foxpoint

June 9 – Food Truck Friday…Martin’s Taco Truck

Martin’s Taco Truck will kick off our summertime Food Truck Friday series! He will park his truck in the pool parking lot from 5:30 – 7:30 and serve up all you can eat tacos & quesadillas. Choose from steak, chicken and carnitas (pork), with a variety of toppings & guacamole. Adults are $13 and kids under 12 are $6. Babies are free.

RSVP and pay via this link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c48a8a92fa4fa7-summer

July 22 – Fox-Aritaville (Adult Pool Party)

Join your friends and neighbors for Fox-Aaritaville – let’s flamingle and party like a pineapple because it’s 5 o’clock somewhere! The party kicks off at 7:00 pm at the Fox Point Pool. The cost is $40 per person and includes dinner and drinks.

RSVP here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c48a8a92fa4fa7-foxaritaville

If you have any ideas for additional food trucks for June/July, please send them my way!

Mark your calendars for these other upcoming events:

• June 24 – Tennis & Tinis (see tennis section for details), Chairs: Christine & Brian Mickey
• July 4^th – Pool Games, chairs: Kris Jankowski, Steve Livingston, Steve Nuzzo
• August 19 – Campout, chairs: Mike Fleming, Greg Paris, Mike Demucci
• September 16 – Garage Sale, chairs: Rena Slovick, Cara O’hara
• September 23 – Golf Outing, chairs: Marc & Doreen Muhs

Tennis

By Christine Mickey | Email

The tennis courts are only for tennis related activities.  There is NO BIKING, ROLLERBLADING, SKATEBOARDING, etc. allowed on the tennis courts.   

First Serve Management Company, Dana Joseph and Chris Cabanban, are very excited about another year managing the Tennis Program at Fox Point.  The Tennis Committee and First Serve have scheduled several new and returning tennis events for Summer 2017. This summer there are 2 tennis sessions of Junior and Adult Classes, Ladies League and Cardio tennis.  Session 1 runs from June 5 – July 6 and Session 2 runs from July 10 – August 3.  

The Fox Point summer tennis classes are filling up quickly. Below are the classes with openings remaining and the times the instructors are open to create custom classes or for private lessons: 

Monday 10:00 – 11:00 – Cardio tennis (no maximum on this class)
Monday 11:00 – 12:00 – Class or a private
Monday 4:45 – 5:30 Netters (Kindergarten) class has 3 openings
Monday 5:00 – 6:00 Half Volleys 2 (2nd grade) class has 3 openings
Wednesday 9:00 – 10:00 – Class or private
Wednesday 10:00 – 11:00 – Cardio (currently there are only 2 registered, need at least 4 or 5)
Wednesday 11:00 – 12:00 – Class or private
Wednesday 12:00 – 2:00 – Open for class or privates
Wednesday 5:30 – 6:30 – Adult Intermediate class – has 2 openings
Wednesday 5:00 – 6:00 – Half Volleys 1 (1st grade) has 2 openings
Wednesday 6:00 – 7:00 – Cardio tennis (no maximum on this class)

First Serve also offers “create your own class” with a minimum of 3 students.  If you are interested in signing up for classes or creating your own class, please contact Dana at 847-404-3174 or email dsj2@comcast.net

See Tennis Class Schedules and Sign Up Form    https://foxpointorg.wpengine.com/fox-point-tennis-courts/

Save the dates and RSVP for these upcoming Fox Point Tennis Events:

Tennis and Tinis – Saturday, June 24, 2017, 5:30 PM at the Fox Point Tennis Courts

All Fox Pointers are invited to Tennis and Tinis! Tennis players please register for the round robin tennis tournament and non-tennis players please join us for cocktails, dinner and socializing with your Fox Point neighbors. $40 per person includes dinner and drinks. Please RSVP as soon as possible so we can get an accurate count for planning this new event!

Limited tournament spots available. Everyone who intends to attend please RSVP soon via this link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c48a8a92fa4fa7-tennis

Registration for the following events will open soon:

Breakfast at Wimbledon – Sunday, July 16, 2017  – 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM at the Fox Point Tennis Courts $10 per person

Wear your Wimbledon white and come out to enjoy breakfast and play in a round-robin tennis tournament.

RSVP by July 8th via sign up genius link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c48a8a92fa4fa7-breakfast

Fox Point vs. Biltmore Tennis Tournament – August 27, 2017

Let’s keep the trophy in Fox Point! 

If you would like to volunteer for the Fox Point Tennis Committee, please contact Christine Mickey.

Common Grounds

By Mike Moran | Email | 847-344-9365 

Things are really starting to shape up in the public areas of Fox Point as plants start to bloom!

Last fall we planted hundreds of new bulbs at the entrances, at the four boat dock garden beds as well as in a few spots at the front of the pool. It was amazing to see all the bulbs pop up and turn into incredible flowers. My hope is that we can continue to plant bulbs each fall in different areas of the neighborhood as they surely provide a nice welcome as we transition into spring each year.

The landscapers did a wonderful job of working through the spring clean- up which included seed repair throughout many of the common areas of the neighborhood, mulch around all of the garden beds and additional mulch in the playground area. In the coming weeks, we will be again working with the landscape team to address any warranty issues from the two recent large landscape projects located at the pool/tennis court complex and at both Valley Road entrances. I have also budgeted some minor dollars to help augment a couple of the areas that did not turn out as planned during the initial installations. As we move into June we will also be planting the summer annuals at each entrance as well as filling the two large flower pots at the entrance to the pool house.

You may have noticed that the two very old, dented, rusted and “have seen better days” picnic tables that were located at the boat docks were donated to one of the local Thursday night recycling trucks. We are purchasing two new 8’ picnic tables which we will strategically place between the pool, tennis courts and playground areas. At the same time, we will be relocating the two square picnic table units currently at that location to the boat dock area as replacements for the two old units.

We still have some tree trimming projects on the horizon as well as the replacement of the two smaller light posts and fixtures that welcome everyone to the boat dock at the driveway entrances. We hope to have progress on both of these fronts later in the summer.

If you have youngsters in the neighborhood you may have also noticed that we have or will be painting the playground equipment as part of the long-term maintenance program for this capital asset. I am hopeful the project will have been completed by the time this newsletter is published if spring rain stops.   In the past few years, we have replaced the swing seats as well as the tire on that set. The new paint will keep this asset in great shape for the foreseeable future.

We are still working on repairing the Valley Road entrance wall at the NE corner as a result of a tree falling on it a few months back. Before spending that money, we are taking a closer look at the entire brick wall up there as it is in need of some serious TLC.   It appears that we did do some tuck pointing on those walls a number of years back but they are showing some fairly serious imperfections that are causing us to look at a more long-term game plan for those walls. My guess is we will have to do some serious tuck pointing, brick replacement and sealing in the next year or two, to maintain and extend the useful life of the front entrance brick walls. As we get feedback and costs from multiple mason companies we will have a better idea as to a short-term game plan.

If you see anything in Fox Point that the landscapers have not addressed, please call or email me.