“The canoe races used to be the Riverfest, but it’s not that way anymore,” said Dana Kyser, who organizes the races. “Certain people come in town for certain things throughout the weekend.”
She said the committee closed the races because of damage to the Jonesville Dam. It has already broken partially open, and if it broke the rest of the way, the river would flood the finish line, she said.
But the food vendors lining both sides of the downtown strip offered another place for people to mill about comfortably.
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