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The Rotary Club of Edmonds, which puts on the annual Edmonds Waterfront Festival by the marina, is suspending the money-losing event in 2019. Now the club is uncertain about whether it wants it to continue.

“We have taken this step after carefully evaluating and analyzing the return-on-investment in its current format,” Edmonds Rotary President David Kaufer said.

Kaufer said there were a number of deadlines approaching that needed to be addressed – read: sponsors – for the 2019 Waterfront Festival to go on as planned.

“This is a difficult decision, after running the Waterfront Fe...