Children’s Fair

Bounce houses, face-painting, pony rides, and so much more are in store at the East Hampton Library’s Children’s Fair on Sunday at 2 p.m. And the good news for parents is that it’s all free. The fair will be held at the Gardiner Farm off James Lane in East Hampton Village.

Over at the library proper, in a safety workshop on Tuesday children 8 to 11 will learn how to fall, roll, and “be ready with a protective stance,” as well as why screaming can help them when they’re in trouble. Arleen West will be the instructor for the workshop, which runs from 3 to 4 p.m.

Children 4 and up can make melted wax paintings using metal foil on Wednesday at 4 p.m. On Friday, Aug. 14, little ones up to age 3 have been invited to a rhyme time with puppets from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m., and kids 4 and older will use cutouts and decorative materials to make family portraits.

Sailing, Free Swimming

Another of East Hampton Town’s two-week sailing programs for kids 12 and up and adults will begin on Monday at Fresh Pond in Amagansett. Instruction takes place each day from 9 a.m. to noon or from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. through Aug. 20. The cost is $200 per person, and registration is at the Parks and Recreation Department behind Town Hall.

Free swimming instruction for children 4 and up is being offered on Mondays through Aug. 21 at Albert’s Landing Beach in Amagansett. The classes are open to all levels, from beginner to advanced. Registration is at the beach at 10 a.m. on Monday. Swimmers should take goggles and water shoes.

Art at the Barge

Art projects for the whole family in a variety of mediums are offered inside and out at the Art Barge on Saturdays through Aug. 23. Families with children 6 to 9 years old can work together or individually with instruction from Franca Bombieri and Chris Cohan from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The cost is $25 per person, and advance registration has been requested at 267-3172. The Art Barge is off Napeague Meadow Road on the shore of Napeague Harbor.

Brady Rymer at Guild Hall

Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could will prove that they can on Wednesday at 5 p.m. at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Mr. Rymer, a two-time Grammy Award nominee, plays “joyful, rootsy rock ’n’ roll” for families, according to a release. Tickets to his KidFest performance cost $18 for adults and $14 for kids. A workshop for kids will precede the performance at 4 p.m. and costs $10. Members get a $2 discount on performances and workshops.

Salt Marsh Excursion

Crystal Possehl of the South Fork Natural History Museum will lead families on an exploration of a salt marsh at Munn Point in Southampton on Saturday at 10 a.m. A raised boardwalk leads over the marsh there to Shinnecock Bay. Families will help herd fish into a seine net, use binoculars to spot birds, and seek out other shore life. Reservations are required, as parking at Munn Point is limited and requires a Southampton Town beach parking permit, which can be borrowed from the museum.

Legos and Robotics

A Lego and robotics workshop for children in first through third grades will take place on Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the Montauk Library. Kids can create superheroes out of Legos. In a later session at 3:45, children in fourth through sixth grade will be able to use the 3-D printer to make their own Lego-inspired projects.

An August movie series for families starts today and runs every Thursday this month at 3 p.m. Today’s feature is “The Incredibles,” with “Big Hero 6” next Thursday. “Despicable Me” will be screened on Aug. 20, and on Aug. 27 “Frozen” will be shown.

Parrish Art Workshop

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is offering a three-day art workshop for 5 and 6-year-olds on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Children will explore painting, sculpture, printmaking, and collage. They should take a lunch. The cost is $190 per person, $145 for members, and reservations are a must.

Circus Camp

Would-be acrobats, jugglers, and clowns ages 8 to 12 may want to mark their calendars for Aug. 17 through 20, when a circus mini-camp puts down stakes at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center. Children will learn a range of circus skills each day from 2 to 5 p.m. and then show off their new skills in performance on Aug. 21. The cost is $150 per child and includes two tickets to the performance. Additional siblings cost $100.

Robotics

For budding engineers in kindergarten through fourth grade, the Brooklyn Robot Foundry is coming to East Hampton. With full-day ($180) or half-day ($100) sessions, the program guides children in building their own custom robots that they can take home. Projects vary from day to day. Sessions run Monday through Friday from Aug. 3 to Aug. 14 at East Hampton High School. Sign-up is online at brooklynrobotfoundry.com/summer-sessions-hamptons.

Calling All Superheroes

Petra’s Puppets is calling all superheroes to the Montauk Library today at 2 p.m. to join Ultra Duck on a quest for the perfect ravioli. Eric, the mild-mannered sheep puppet, will transform into Super Sheep and will ask for audience participation to battle the villainous Gorgonzilla and his dastardly sidekick, the Almost Invisible Cow. Children can wear their own superhero capes if they wish and will be invited to play a mind-twisting game of Defeat the Cheese.

At the Art Barge

The setting for the Children’s Art Carnival, a series of art workshops for kids 5 and up in a variety of mediums, could hardly be more peaceful. Set on the shores of Napeague Harbor, the Art Barge, a.k.a. the Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, is definitely far from the madding crowd. The Art Carnival classes began on Monday and will continue today and tomorrow and Monday through Friday, Aug. 7, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. or from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Children will experiment with form, line, shape, and color using “motivational teaching toys” designed by Mr. D’Amico, and then go to work in the studio. The cost is $40 per day, per student, and advance registration has been requested by phone at 267-3172.

Family Fun Day

Mamalee and Friends will get moms and dads and kids and grandparents dancing during the Hampton Library’s Family Fun Day on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. on its back lawn in Bridgehampton. There will be games, projects, and shaved ice courtesy of SnowBiz, and it’s all gratis.

On Tuesday at the library, kids 7 to 12 will create retro video characters using beads and an iron from 4 to 5 p.m. A science workshop on Friday, Aug. 7, from 11 a.m. to noon will have kids 4 and older making “elephant foam” that grows and grows. Watch out!

Camp Shakespeare

The Hampton Shakespeare Festival is gearing up for Camp Shakespeare, a series of performance workshops focusing on the Bard for kids 8 to 15. The camp will be offered in Amagansett at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church from Aug. 10 through 14 and Aug. 17 through 21, and at the Southampton Cultural Center from Aug. 24 through 28. The cost is $475 per week, or $450 per week for two weeks or more. Some financial aid is available.

Each day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. campers will do acting, improv, movement, and voice exercises and theatrical arts and crafts, and they’ll finish each week with a performance for family and friends. Participants will be divided by age. Advance sign-up is a must at 267-0105 or hamptons-shakespeare.org/ camp.

“Peter and the Wolf” Returns

The young dancers of the Hampton Ballet Theatre School will be joined by the Hampton Festival Orchestra in a production of Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’ on Tuesday at the Children’s Museum of the East End and next Thursday at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center.

Tuesday’s show will start at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $17 in advance, $15 for CMEE members, and $20 at the door. They can be reserved through the museum. Next Thursday’s performance will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $15.

The ballet school’s director, Sara Jo Strickland, choreographed the production. Students 4 to 18 will dance the parts, with Adam Baranello of the A&G Dance Company joining them. Bonnie Grice of WPPB radio will be the guest narrator.

Paper Boat Regatta

Families will build origami boats and race them in rain gutters during the Amagansett Library’s annual paper boat regatta on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. The family movie today at 3:30 p.m. will be “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” starring Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner. The library also has a slew of regular weekly activities, details of which can be found in our children’s calendar in today’s arts and living section.

The Circus!

The Cole Bros. Circus will set up its tents on the Shinnecock powwow grounds in Southampton on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, with shows scheduled for 5 and 8 p.m. each day. Tickets start at $16 for general admission. They are available online at gotothecircus.com or at Wittendale’s flower shop on Newtown Lane in East Hampton or Stevenson’s Toys in Southampton. Pony rides and face painting will be offered an hour before each scheduled show.

Busy Month at CMEE

There’s a whole lot happening at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton as August arrives, beginning Saturday with the opening of “Dictionary Daze,” an exhibition of alphabet-themed screen-print collages by Peter Tunney.

“Inspired by illustrations found in the 1927 edition of Webster’s International Dictionary, the exhibit showcases the artist’s enthusiasm for language, unique perspective, and creative process,” the museum said. A reception and T-shirt printing workshop for the whole family will kick off the show on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. Those wishing to attend have been asked to reserve a spot by emailing Liz Bard at [email protected]. The exhibition will be on view through Labor Day.

A number of monthlong workshops for parents or caregivers with kids 2 to 4 will start this week. On Tuesdays, there’s a family art and dance program from 3 to 4 p.m. Wednesdays bring cooking classes from 10:15 to 11 a.m. Clay art workshops will be given on Thursdays from 9 to 9:45 a.m. or from 10:15 to 11, and on Fridays, it’s family art from 9 to 9:45 a.m. or 10:15 to 11. The cost for each is $200 or $150 for members.

A Spanish-language immersion program for ages 5 to 7 will be offered on Tuesdays all month from 3 to 5 p.m. The cost is $375, $325 for members. Baby and Me early childhood parenting sessions will be offered on Monday and Tuesday and again on Aug. 10 and 11 at 11:30 a.m. This one costs $20 per session, free for members.

Finally, a soccer program for kids 21/2 to 5 will take up residence at CMEE on Mondays through Fridays in August, with half-day and extended day options available. Kick and Play, a pre-soccer movement program for parents and toddlers up to 24 months, will be offered on Mondays and Thursdays in August from 9 to 9:40 a.m. Registration for these is through Super Soccer Stars at 212-877-7171.

On Friday, Aug. 7, at 6 p.m. Elizabeth Frogel will read from her book “Charlie Girl” during the museum’s monthly Pizza and Pajama Night. It’s free for members, $10 for everyone else. Reservations have been recommended.

Basics of Safety

Arleen West, who studied under Sensei Mark Tuthill, will teach ages 5 to 7 some basics of personal safety and self-defense during a program on Tuesday from 3 to 4 p.m. at the East Hampton Library. Kids will learn how to fall, roll, and “be ready with a protective stance.” Ms. West will teach the same workshop on Aug. 11 for kids 8 to 11.

Stop-Motion Workshop

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor is offering a stop-motion animation workshop for kids 6 to 9 next Thursday and Friday, Aug. 7, from 10 a.m. to noon. Kids will work in teams of two to make their own animated short using clay, drawings, or whatever materials they like. There is space for only eight participants.

The Wellness Foundation of East Hampton, a nonprofit, is marking its 10th anniversary this year, and expanding its focus on engaging children and families in learning about and improving their health through optimal nutrition and lifestyle choices.

Beginning Wednesday, Jennifer Taylor, who has been with the foundation almost from the start, will offer a W Kids in the Kitchen cooking class series — three sessions at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor at which children and parents will be able to cook and enjoy more than a dozen different and easily replicated meals. The classes are for children ages 8 to 12.

Ms. Taylor said that some time ago she was struck by a prediction she heard that, because of the incidence of chronic degenerative diseases such as diabetes and heart disease caused by obesity, the children born in this generation may be the first to have a shorter life span than their parents.

She was inspired, she said, to begin a wellness program that could turn that prediction on its head.

The goal is to inspire and teach children to “grow a healthy body.”

“ ‘It’s your responsibility,’ ” is the message, Ms. Taylor said. “And the kids have really risen to that. We tell them, ‘You are wellness warriors in your community.’ ”

Over the last seven or eight years, the Wellness Foundation has presented its Healthy Food for Life program in every public elementary and middle school from Southampton to Montauk, Ms. Taylor said.

In an effort to involve every student in the program’s activities once every three years throughout their schooling, the six consecutive weekly lessons are presented to students in prekindergarten and/or kindergarten, third grade, and sixth grade. A high school curriculum is being developed.

Surveys of children and families involved in the program have shown that it has an impact reaching beyond just the kids.

Almost 80 percent of families report eating more whole foods and green leafy vegetables, the foundation says, 57 percent of families report a decrease in the consumption of processed junk foods, and almost half the families report an increase in reading food labels before making a purchase.

   It was the children at the East Hampton Middle School who initially prompted Doug Mercer, the founder of the Wellness Foundation, to act.

After Ginny Reale, a middle school health teacher (who became a Wellness Foundation teacher after retiring from the school), started a wellness initiative called Bonac on Board to Wellness, students bought into the healthy eating message so much that they staged a sit-in to push for healthier options for school lunches.

Mr. Mercer, said Ms. Taylor this week, was inspired, in his retirement, to also do something to spread the healthy living word.

More than 1,000 people, Ms. Taylor said — and maybe half again as many — have signed up for the foundation’s Wellness Challenge, a seven-week program that provides information and guidance to those interested in adopting a vegan diet and healthier lifestyle.

Also launched this summer were new Healthy Food for Life program online training and certification sessions. They were developed after the foundation’s work in the schools was featured in the movie “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead 2” by Joe Cross.

A documentarian who chronicled his own weight loss and health enhancement journey in the first “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead,” Mr. Cross has visited East Hampton and seen the results of the program here.

People from all over the world who saw the movie approached the Wellness Foundation for tips on starting their own Healthy Food for Life programs, Ms. Taylor said.

Participants in the first online training session, which began two weeks ago, hail from across the United States and include preschool and middle school teachers, a pediatrician, a health coach, a nutritionist, and a mother and grandmother who wants to enlist her own family in the program.

With six interactive webinars, curriculums for various grade levels that are aligned with Common Core curriculum standards, and associated teaching materials, “we really teach them how to start a wellness movement,” Ms. Taylor said.

At the W Kids cooking classes starting next week, Ms. Taylor will present a lesson, and then small groups will break off to create four or five meals that all can taste.

Children are much more likely to eat — and enjoy — healthy foods if they’ve participated in the cooking process, Ms. Taylor said, and families are much more likely “to go home and make something after they’ve tasted it.”

“We call it a wellness revolution led by kids,” she said. 

Those interested in registering for the classes, which cost $60 each for a parent and child, or $150 for all three, may register online at wfeh.org, or by calling the Wellness Foundation’s East Hampton office. Additional adults or children may join in for $25 per session. The sessions will cover breakfasts, lunches and snacks, and “superfood suppers.”

Student musicians from the South Fork, New York City, and countries as far away as Afghanistan, Mexico, Bolivia, and Israel will converge here starting on Monday to make beautiful music.

The summer camp that brings them together is Hamptons Music Sessions, now in its fourth year. Theresa Kim, a piano teacher who founded the program, has announced that this year’s camp will include 11 public performances over the course of 11 days from Southampton to Montauk.

The goal is to “become more a part of the fabric of the community,” Ms. Kim said Tuesday.

Performances include a trio at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett at 8 p.m. on Wednesday (tickets are $20), a free show at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, and a show highlighting the work of Arab and Israeli students at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton on Aug. 9 at 4 p.m.

Other shows in East Hampton will take place at BookHampton, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, and the East Hampton Town Senior Citizens Center. A complete festival lineup can be found at hamptonsmusic.org/events.

Guests can expect a combination of classical music pieces and instrumental improvisation at each show.

“Using their classical techniques, they’re able to make up their own music and play together off the cuff,” Ms. Kim said. “It’s really fun.”

The students, who are in kindergarten through 12th grade, will come prepared: Ms. Kim said they have spent time on their own learning the sheet music before their arrival at the camp.

It’s fair to say the importance of the students’ work lies not only in the ambitious lineup of performances. The camp is also about culture, service, and friendship.

“We teach kids at an early age that a cultural exchange is very important to their education,” Ms. Kim said. “I think that’s a really valuable experience. Anyone can make music, and through music you can communicate with anyone.”

If they only knew, the wildlife around Pussy’s Pond in Springs would surely thank East Hampton’s Girl Scout Troop 419.

With a bronze award already earned — for which the scouts created a pamphlet on endangered wildlife, spent a night at the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, N.Y., and sailed on a whale-watching vessel, among additional field research — the scouts’ journey toward a silver award has included a study of noise pollution. That research took them to the town trustees’ June 23 meeting and the July 9 meeting of the town’s nature preserve committee, where they proposed a sign requesting that noise be kept to a minimum so as not to disturb animals.

“We decided we wanted to make a sign to get people aware of the noise and try and get them to quiet down a little,” Alexandra Schumacher, a Cadette, told the trustees last month. “The animals would be happier if that happened.”

After all, as Sienna Bowen, another Cadette, explained to the nature preserve committee, “The animals are having a hard day trying to survive.”

The scouts were warmly received by both the trustees and the nature preserve committee, who are expected to issue a joint recommendation to the town board that a sign be approved. “These girls are very passionate,” said Lisa Brown, their leader. “They have been following environmental issues from the start.”

Automobile traffic is a prime culprit, the girls said, though they also determined that their own activities disturbed wildlife. “We noticed how all the animals were running away when we were talking,” Caroline Brown, who is Ms. Brown’s daughter, told the trustees. “We noticed that, when we walked up to a deer, it ran away.”

The scouts submitted a drawing of the proposed sign to the nature preserve committee and asked for additional suggestions as to its design, construction, and placement. If all goes according to plan, the town board will accept the joint recommendation and the proposal will be adopted. A ceremony at the pond would mark the sign’s installation.

Diane McNally, clerk of the trustees, was enthusiastic about the idea when it was presented in June and again at the nature preserve committee’s meeting, which she attended. “I have no objection to the Girl Scouts trying to alleviate noise,” she said at the trustees’ meeting. “We will accept into the record their recommendations or suggestions for a sign.”

At the trustees’ July 14 meeting, she briefed her colleagues on the nature preserve committee’s deliberations. The sign would be installed on land under that group’s authority, not trustee jurisdiction, she said. “The nature preserve committee will continue to work with them,” she said of the scouts. “They’re a great group of girls.”

Several school board members in the East Hampton, Springs, Sag Harbor, and Wainscott districts were re-elected as board officers during recent organizational meetings, while a number of new members have been added to the mix.

In Springs, Liz Mendelman was re-elected as board president on July 13. The 2015-16 school year will be her third as president of the Springs School Board; she was first elected in 2011. Tim Frazier was elected to his first term as vice president of the Springs board.

On the East Hampton School Board, J.P. Foster and Christina DeSanti were re-elected as president and vice president on July 14. It will be Ms. DeSanti’s second year as vice president; she was first elected in 2011. Mr. Foster, who began serving on the board in 2013, will be in his second year as president.

In Sag Harbor, Susan Kinsella was elected president and Chris Tice was re-elected as vice president on July 13. Ms. Kinsella, who is in her seventh year on the board, begins her first year as a board officer. Ms. Tice, who won re-election to the board in May, begins her sixth year on the board and her fourth year as vice president.

In Wainscott, David Eagan was re-elected president on July 8. He began serving on the board in 2006 and was its president during the last two school years.

The Sagaponack School Board officers for the 2015-16 school year are Brian Villante, president, and Cathy Hatgistavrou, vice president. This will be the first time Mr. Villante has served as a board officer. Ms. Hatgistavrou was president last year.

Inda Eaton, the singer, songwriter, and storyteller based in East Hampton, will lead a series of workshops for elementary-school age students in the coming weeks at local libraries. The workshops are produced through Ms. Eaton’s nonprofit organization, Ideas to Inspire, which encourages imagination and self-expression among children through music and storytelling, aided by digital technology and social media. The workshops will include writing, a recording session, and a live music performance, and will culminate in an audio recording that the children can take home.

The workshops will take place today and on Aug. 13 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. at the Amagansett Library for children in grades four through six. A session for children 9 to 11 will be held on Tuesday at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor. Further details can be found at ideastoinspire.org.

Daring Feats at Guild Hall

The Kamikaze Fireflies juggle fire while balancing on shopping carts, towers of chairs, and precarious poles, and on Wednesday they’ll take their comedy variety show to Guild Hall. The Los Angeles team of Rob Williams and Casey Martin travel the country entertaining audiences of all sizes. Wednesday’s show at Guild Hall starts at 5 p.m. Tickets cost $18 for adults and $14 for kids, with a $2 discount for members.

An outdoor workshop related to the day’s performance will begin at 4 p.m. The cost is $10, $8 for members.

Kids in the Kitchen

The Wellness Foundation of East Hampton, which runs healthy foods programs in local schools and educates people of all ages about the benefits of better food choices, is offering a summer cooking series for kids 8 to 12 and their parents on the first three Wednesdays in August. The registration deadline is Friday, July 31.

The first class will focus on creative, nutritious breakfasts and offer “tips so you and your child can be health-savvy shoppers,” according to the foundation. Lunch and smart snacks are on the menu for class two, and “superfood suppers” are the subject of the third class. Each session will meet from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Sag Harbor. The cost per class is $60 for one child and an adult or parent, and another $25 for an additional child or adult. The three-class series costs $150 for a parent and child. Registration is by phone at 329-2590 or online at wfeh.org.

National Circus Project

Performers from the National Circus Project will visit the Montauk Library tomorrow, offering an upbeat sampling of the circus arts from 5 to 6 p.m. Next Thursday, Petra Puppets will be on hand from 2 to 3 p.m. with a story of Ultra Duck and his “quest for the perfect ravioli.”

Grandparents Day

Grandmoms and granddads will take center stage on Wednesday when the Children’s Museum of the East End hosts a grandparents night at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton. Visitors can stroll the five-acre open garden and join in a scavenger hunt amid the plantings from 6 to 7:30. The cost is $10. Members get in free.

Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore

Kids 6 to 8 will explore the field and pond behind the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton on Saturday as they search for creatures and learn about the foods they eat during a program at 10:30 a.m. Advance registration has been requested.

Tales Told Anew

Tuckers’ Tales, a Pennsylvania puppeteer duo, will perform today at the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre in Sag Harbor and the Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane.

In Sag Harbor, Marianne and Tom Tucker will present “Tales of Beatrix Potter” today through Saturday at 11 a.m. Tickets cost $12, $10 for members and grandparents, and $8 for children 3 and under and additional siblings. In Southampton, the puppeteers will offer “It’s the Wolf!” — a sort of fairy tale revue about the travels of Mr. Furr E. Wolf. The outdoor show starts at 4:30 p.m. and is free.

Superheroes, Zines, and Puppets

Wannabe superheroes can indulge their fantasies during two programs at local libraries this week. On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., kids of all ages can create superhero costumes at the Amagansett Library. Those 4 and up might consider wearing them to a superhero party at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton on Friday, July 31, at 11 a.m.

Also at the Hampton Library, teens will make subway art using words and letters found in magazines during a program on Saturday at 2 p.m.

At the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, this afternoon’s craft for ages 3 and up will be mini beach umbrella wreaths. The fun starts at 3. On Monday at John Jermain kids 12 to 18 will learn all about zines — do-it-yourself publications that anyone can publish on any topic. Materials will be provided. The program runs from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The library’s drop-in Lego League for ages 5 to 12 gathers on Wednesday at 11 a.m., and next Thursday from 3 to 4 p.m. kids 3 and up can make a picture using buttons.

At the East Hampton Library, ages 4 and up will explore Aztec art and make some of their own on Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. An interactive rhyme time with puppets will stimulate little ones up to age 3 on Friday, July 31, at 10:30 a.m. Advance registration has been requested.

Resources for young people undergoing mental health crises isn’t so much a “want” as a “need,” according to the teens and 20-somethings who poured their hearts out at a recent forum at the Montauk Firehouse.

Now, the Family Service League and the New York State Office of Mental Health are responding to their requests for help.

The East End Peer Network, which was recently organized, will meet Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Gin Beach in Montauk. Two of the Family Service League’s youngest social workers, along with a youth coordinator from the Office of Mental Health, will lead the discussion. The Tyler Project is co-sponsoring the initiative. Those interested have been invited to attend.

On May 28, a group including teens, those in their 20s and 30s, and older adults collectively said they needed more local access to services and resources based on their ages. The forum was held nearly a year after Tyler Valcich, a 20-year-old volunteer firefighter and Montauk resident, committed suicide. The Tyler Project was formed in his memory to help end suicide among young people, which national studies have shown is the second leading cause of death among those 15 to 24.

The Sax Leader Foundation, which helps those battling drug addiction, and Long Island Communities of Practice, which supports people with disabilities and their families, are sponsors as well.

Robyn Berger-Gaston, the Family Service League’s director of youth, senior, and intergenerational services, said Thursday’s gathering is going to be open-ended, with the goal of empowering “kids to play a part in creating something ongoing.”

“The kids were saying they wanted a group for themselves. They didn’t want an old social worker. They wanted someone young they can talk to,” Ms. Berger-Gaston said on Tuesday. “They all have been touched by suicide and have expressed having different problems of their own. This is what they want.”

State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and Senator Kenneth P. LaValle are advocates for state funding of efforts such as the South Fork Behavioral Health Initiative, which was set up in 2014 and this year received an additional $175,000 from the state.

Of the launch of the East End Peer Network, Mr. Thiele said, “I think it’s great. I think these are the kinds of initiatives that all of us envisioned, certainly Senator LaValle and I, in getting the funds last year and this year to work with Family Service League, the Office of Mental Health, and the Tyler Project also. I still think we have a long way to go when it comes to mental health services on the East End, but by all accounts, these initiatives are making a difference in the community.”

Those planning to attend the East End Peer Network event today at Gin Beach have been advised to bring beach chairs. According to the flier, refreshments will be provided.

Update, July 22: The Springs facilities committee meeting originally scheduled for Wednesday evening at 5 p.m. has been postponed to a later date that has not yet been announced.

Originally: Sag Harbor will hold a public hearing Monday at 6 p.m. to discuss repairs to the Sag Harbor Elementary School boiler. What to do about the aging boiler was debated during the recent budget process, when officials questioned whether it should be repaired, which they said it has needed on a fairly frequent basis, or replaced.

The public hearing will take place in the Pierson High School library, with a school board meeting to follow. At the meeting, the board plans to discuss the district's goals for the coming school year. A second "goals" meeting will be held Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the library, with an open session to follow for personnel actions.

The Springs School District's facilities committee will have its third session, possibly its last, on Wednesday. The committee met in May and June to come up with ways to handle overcrowding in the building. Wednesday's meeting will take place at 5 p.m. at the Springs School library. It is open to the public, but there will not be an opportunity for public comment.

A Montauk School Board meeting scheduled for Tuesday has been canceled. Its next meeting is set for Aug. 11.