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This Year's Festival Of The Fox Cancelled
Fest organizers did not give a reason for cancelling the festival.
ST. CHARLES, IL – After downsizing in recent years, Festival of the Fox organizers told the city of St. Charles they would not hold a festival this summer, the Aurora Beacon-News reports. Best known for its hand-carved dragon boat races, the festival dates back to 1983 when it was known as the Pride of the Fox, St. Charles City Administrator Mark Koenen told the newspaper. The festival's board of directors sent an e-mail last week to let the city know the festival would not be held this June.
The Aurora Beacon-News reports the e-mail, which did not give a specific reason for cancelling the festival, read:
The email reads in part: “The Pride of the Fox Fest would like to thank the city for supporting the Festival of the Fox over the past two years of its inception and development. We regret to say that the festival will not be held in June 2018. We hope that in the interim time spent on addressing organizational community support as well as program development for a bigger, stronger fest will be fruitful in coming years.”
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The festival re-branded itself in recent years, going by the name of RiverFest and featuring bands, while last year's festival had more of focus on family activities and the dragon boat races in Pottawatomie Park, according to the Aurora Beacon-News.
"Over the last couple of years they reinvented themselves,” Koenen told the newspaper. “I don't know necessarily if they were completely satisfied with that."
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