A staple of the Labour Day weekend is being cancelled due to COVID-19.
The Merritton Lions Club has decided not to host their annual carnival and parade this year.
Member Steve Yendt explains, "Myself and some of the other club members have been meeting on Zoom and through email and text and we just don't find it feasible to do anything that we normally provide for the community safely, and sticking to the guidelines that are in place now and that I forecast still being in place in early September."
He says the operator of the midway company the club typically uses also reached out in the spring to inform them that the company was not operating as normal this year either.
"With the cost of putting his equipment on the road and insurance and safety, to do a couple of events, maybe, at the end of the year in September? It just wasn't worth it for him."
Yendt says they are making plans to return next year.