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North Vancouver has cancelled next weekend’s Fun City Festival, the city’s popular waterslide party on Lonsdale Avenue.

The city says the third-party waterslide provider Fun City Sliders are not able to fulfill their commitment to provide the 1,000-foot waterslide down Lower Lonsdale this year.

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“We know this is disappointing news for the community and we’re disappointed too. Fun City Festival has been a tremendous success for the past few years and the city was looking very forward to hosting the event again this summer,” the city said in a statement. “Fun City Festival is dependent on a waterslide provider, and this year’s waterslide operator has made a business decision to cancel due to the costs associated with running this kind of niche event.”

The two-day waterslide event, which has been held since 2015, was scheduled for July 13 and 14.

Last year’s event attracted 6,000 sliders and more than 100 volunteers.