Leah Cover / Staff Writer

Lee County Junior League hosts 3rd annual art walk

For 321 early birds, the Jule Collins Smith Museum became Auburn's center of attention as they ran, jogged and ambled for 1.5 miles around the museum.The JCSM hosted the Junior League of Lee County's 3rd Annual Art Walk, benefitting local art and literacy education, Saturday.Summer Vaughan, JLLC's fundraising director, has been leading the mission for a few years and said she loves her work."I enjoy continuing to give back, to see local programs more driven and more accessible (to those in need of them)," Vaughan said.Saturday's Art Walk was expected to raise more than $10,000, which would then benefit seven separate sponsoring local organizations.The crowd included students and community members.Ashley Eden, junior in elementary education, managed to get up early to fulfill her sponsorship of the Art Walk/Run.The JLLC has been a local sector of the national Junior League since the '80s, supporting and promoting women's image as a professional, maternal and empowered individual.The JLLC employs its almost 200 members through volunteer work or sponsorship at three annual fundraisers, including a spring rummage sale, an art walk or run and a Christmas poinsettia sale.