Montauk Notes 10.25.18

Bruce Howard, who has worked at the Montauk Post Office for 28 years, celebrated 30 years with the United States Postal Service on Monday with his co-worker Jeanne Stevens and a postal patron, Judy Morton.

Jane Bimson

Oct. 25, 2018

Jane Bimson

Vicki Bustamante, a naturalist and native plant expert, will lead a Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons fall walk in Montauk County Park on Saturday at 10 a.m. Participants will make stops at Squaw Hill overlooking Block Island Sound and Oyster Pond, and the grasslands of the Montaukett tribe. The cost is $5 for alliance members and $10 for non-members.

Proceeds will benefit the Third House Nature Center. Registration is at HAHgarden.org or 631-537-2223. The meeting place is on Melchionna Road off East Lake Drive. The rain date is Sunday at 10 a.m.

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St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church has put out the call to home cooks who would like to share traditional foods from their family’s home countries at an international food festival on Nov. 4. Those interested in volunteering their culinary expertise to the event have been asked to call the parish center at 631-668-2200 by Monday.

The festival will run from noon to 3 p.m., and tickets will be sold at the door.

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The Montauk Library will hold a free community health fair on Friday, Nov. 2, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sponsored by the East Hampton Healthcare Foundation and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, it will include free health screenings and appointments for no-cost mammograms and Pap tests. Health insurance representatives and nutrition educators will be on hand to answer questions. Flu shots will also be available. Healthy refreshments will be served, and a stress circle will be held.

In the last of the library’s Stormy Weather discussion series on Sunday, Greg Donohue, the director of erosion control for the Montauk Lighthouse and a member of the Montauk Historical Society’s board of directors, will discuss an upcoming $24 million stone revetment project to shore up the lighthouse against further erosion. The illustrated talk begins at 2:30 p.m.

Montauk residents can purchase tickets at the circulation desk to the Met Live in HD broadcast of Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West” at Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. Tickets cost $15, and will be distributed at Guild Hall 30 minutes before the show.

Next week’s Tech Tuesday session at 10:15 a.m. will focus on the library edition of Ancestry.com. Space is limited, and registration is required.