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1.松島湾の養殖かきは、おととしの東日本大震災で大きな被害を受けました。それに、去年は夏を過ぎても暑かったため.
What the meaning of this ため ?

2.祭りを1日だけにしたり、焼いたかきを無料で配るのをやめたりして、ことしも行うことができました。
What meaning of this だけにしたり & 行うことができました

Can someone translate into English for above 2 sentence.

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    1.Because of (too hot.)
    2.Dake means only. ~shitari means we did it also did it something else.
    行うことができました means we could do it. So on this time, as these sentences inculde we had a big earthquake, we didn't the festival for so long and we didn't distribute broiled oyster on free. So we were able to carry out this festival. ~だけにしたり、~しなかったことにより、we could do it.

    Firstly, the answers for your questions are

    1 . Yes. ため means because of
    ......, "the oyster harvest was poor. ". Is omitted.
    2. 一日だけにしたり = to arrange the schedule to only one day
    (The festival is usually scheduled in more than one day though, )

    行うことができました。= managed to hold it.


    Oysters farmed in Matsushima gulf had been affected seriously by the Tohoku earthquake 2 years ago. What's worse, the weather had been hot even after summer .
    Inspite of this bad condition, we manged to hold a festival by shortened the schedule to only one day and giving up offering roasted oysters for the people.

    As some words are omitted in 日本語 , it's hard to understand if you translate it literally.

    Any questions?



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