5K Boardwalk Run on Saturday Benefits Community Art

A 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) walk/run on the Ocean City Boardwalk on Saturday morning will raise money for Community Art Projects, the nonprofit arts group on a mission to beautify Ocean City through public art.

The "Run for the Art of It" course is entirely on the Ocean City Boardwalk and runs from the to the end of the Boardwalk at 23rd Street and back. The event also includes a one-mile fun run for kids following the 5K.

Registration is $25 on active.com. The kids race is $10. Families of four are $80. Pre-registered racers get a T-shirt.

Race-day registration and packet pick-up begins at 7 a.m. Sept. 15 at the Music Pier. Cost to register race day is $30 (family of four, $90). T-shirts will be distributed as supplies last.

The 5K run/walk begins at 8 a.m. For information, call Louise Nunan at 609-398-5068.

Community Art Projects is a nonprofit group that raises its own funds to create public art (the murals and sculptures that adorn once-empty walls and spaces throughout the city).

The group just dedicated a 9/11 memorial sculpture at the Ocean City Fire Department at Sixth Street and Asbury Avenue, and members have recently painted a new round of traffic-light boxes. 

"Public art elevates the town," Leslie Skibo, president of Community Art Projects, said after one recent project. "It gives everybody a little lift."