PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — With the coronavirus pandemic scrapping festivals such as Hillbilly Days and the Kentucky Apple Festival, Prestonsburg is continuing to plan for this year’s Jenny Wiley Festival.
Plans for the festival are expected to be hammered out next week, but Mayor Les Stapleton says this year’s festival will not look like past years.
“It will probably be a lot different than any year before,” Stapleton said in a Facebook video update to the city Thursday. “We’re going to have to change some things up. The concert will have to be moved to a different venue, so people have a lot more room to spread out. Things will be spread out a lot more in town. There will be hand-sanitizing stations.”
The Jenny Wiley Festival is set to take place Oct. 7-10.
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This isn’t growth for the city it’s lack of concern for people, especially when schools are being delayed and other neighboring counties cancelled their upcoming fall events and positive cases have been increasing
This is absolutely sickening!!! We should not be doing things like this! Our children can’t even attend school in normal fashion and Prestonsburg still plans to rack in that money! Not caring how they will be harming their people!
This is the most RIDICULOUS thing I have ever seen!
Every other city and tourism near us has cancelled theirs! Get with today’s time! Think about something other than money!
Im glad Jenny Wiley Fest is still on!!!! people need this right now. Thank you Mayor Stapleton !!!!!!!