03-05-2025
Public Services prepares for the Spring Folly
Every year, over 30,000 people descend on Kernersville for the three days of Spring Folly, Kernersville's largest festival, but that only follows days of work by town crews to try to the visitors have a pleasant experience.
About a month before the Spring Folly, workers with various town divisions begin to do beautification projects such as landscaping and maintaining public spaces, Streets Division Supervisor Edgar Colon said.
'It goes with our image. We're a small town that's very neat and organized,' Colop said.
Spring Folly gives Kernersville an opportunity to showcase the town and visitors might be drawn in by the town's overall impression, Public Services Supervisor Mike Tester said.
'If they're visiting and riding through, they might like what they see and stay,' he said.
Crews from Public Services work in tandem to eliminate safety hazards and spruce up downtown Kernersville, Public Services Dupervisor Joshua Levins said.
'We go around downtown, and we'll grind out the concrete to get rid of trip hazards on the sidewalk and we'll reset any bricks that are loose. We also have crews putting out mulch,' Levins said.
Levins emphasized the importance of public safety during Spring Folly.
'We're putting up signs and barricades for the road closures. The Kernersville Police Department will have their cars there and the Sanitation Department will have their trucks there making sure no vehicles can get in, keeping it safe for everybody,' Levins said.
