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If you will be traveling to the Gem City on this weekend to attend the Annual Dogwood Festival, just wanted to let you know that there will not be a Dogwood Carnival in Quincy, IL this year, according to city officials.

Ward 7 Alderman Terri Heinecke, said the paperwork needed in order to close the streets for the carnival had to be filed by last Friday to be put on the agenda for Monday night’s City Council meeting. She said the council needed to approve the street closures for the rides to be set up. The council also needed to approve the reservation of Washington Park, security and clean-up responsibilities.

“I told (the people who hired the carnival) to have their paperwork filed by Friday,” said Heinecke. “It wasn’t done, which means there won’t be a carnival this year.”

Zach Boden, with Boden Amusements, said his Bushnell, Illinois-based family business has been coming to the Dogwood Festival for the past 13 years, but has never been responsible for city paperwork.

“We have a contract sitting right here for this year’s carnival,” Boden said. “But, we got a call today saying it wasn’t going to happen.”

Boden said that call came from Teresa Godman, who oversees Quincy Dogwood, Inc.

Boden said Godman told his father that she didn’t get the city paperwork filed in time for the City Council to vote on street closures and other necessary protocol.

“We’re all loaded up and ready to go,” Boden said. “We’d still come if they said we could come. We love starting off our season in Quincy.”

Washington Park won’t be completely empty this weekend.

You can find the Farmer’s Market there on Saturday morning.

(Information Courtesy Of WGEM-TV & KHQA-TV)