Holding a piece of golden yellow chalk, Haley Jenner, of Bayport, crouched down to embellish a frame around their mural of a bunny witch taking flight.

The 22-year-old artist's whimsical mural was one of about 100 lining the winding path at Blue Point Nature Preserve on Saturday during the ninth annual William's Chalk the Walk fundraiser.

Each September, the event transforms the trail into an open-air art gallery to raise money for William's Warriors, a nonprofit created in memory of William Schultz, a 7-year-old from Blue Point who died of complications from brain cancer treatment in 2017.

Jenner said they were inspired by the Schultz family's resilience and "taking the darkness and pain of losing a child and turning it into something that helps the community."

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