Organizers of San Francisco Fleet Week, an annual celebration of the U.S. Armed Forces, confirmed Wednesday that some events will go on amid a federal government shutdown that went into effect overnight.

Fleet Week will run from Sunday to Oct. 13 and this year’s event is serving as the official West Coast celebration of the U.S. Navy’s 250th anniversary, but organizers said U.S. military participation is paused after Republican and Democratic members of Congress could not reach a budget deal before a deadline at the end of the day Tuesday.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.