The Friends of Crescent Beach announced Wednesday that this year’s edition of Soar on the Shore has been canceled. The event was one of the last holdouts on the summer calendar as the Algoma Chamber already announced that Shanty Days would not occur. Cathy Pabich, a member of the Friends’ Steering Committee, says health concerns and financial worries contributed to the decision. Pabich says with businesses already stretched, it would have been the worst of all worlds to gather their support only to have to call the event off in the coming months. The Friends looked at self-funding Soar on the Shore but couldn’t make it work.

Pabich left the door open for something to happen in late summer, but any type of substitute would be more spontaneous and on a reduced scale.