For the second year in a row, the pandemic is canceling some of West Marin’s beloved summer events. There won’t be a parade for Western Weekend this Sunday, and the Briones Lions Club won’t host a Fourth of July parade in Bolinas. The club had discussed discontinuing its parade for a year in 2019 after overcrowding began to make the festivities in Bolinas unsafe. They weren’t bargaining for the coronavirus to cancel the event for two consecutive years. The club’s secretary, Matt Lewis, wrote in a letter that the Lions came to the decision that it was still too soon to safely congregate in large numbers in town. “It just isn’t worth the risk,” he wrote. Madeline Hope is the director of the Tomales Bay Youth Center and has been helping organize Western Weekend for 15 years. “It’s always been an enormous undertaking,” she said. This year, Ms. Hope said, the coalition of groups that organize the event did not have the time or resources to take it on, given the added public health risks. “It’s an extra heavy lift to try to do something that’s bigger than any one of us in the face of the pandemic,” she said. Angelo Sacheli, co-president of the West Marin Lions Club, one of the groups that organizes the event, called last year “a slam dunk: we couldn’t do it.” This year, the choice was less clear. The planners decided to cancel the parade three months ago, when Covid-19 numbers were higher. But Western Weekend events aren’t canceled altogether. On Saturday, Bivalve Dairy will host an archery competition and Toby’s Feed Barn will host the dog demo and the 4-H poultry and rabbit shows. All weekend, arts and crafts exhibits made by Shoreline students will be for sale at Toby’s to benefit local 4-H clubs. The Inverness Fair won’t happen on the second Saturday of August this year either. “Nobody wants to be paranoid, but everyone wants to be safe,” Inverness Association president Kathy Hartzell said.  “You don’t wanna look around and think ‘are you vaccinated?’” The San Geronimo Valley Lions Club is also erring on the side of caution this summer, canceling its annual July Fourth barbecue at the Dickson Ranch in Woodacre. “We have a member who works for the health department and just feels it’s too soon to have it,” secretary Allison Puglisi said. Like last year, the Lions will still have an unofficial parade along Railroad Avenue, with Grace Tolson bringing up the rear in her Camaro.