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April 9, 2018Area’s First Repair Café Coming to Schenectady
What do you do with a chair that has a loose leg? A toaster that doesn’t work anymore? Don’t throw them away, bring them to Repair Café. The Schenectady County Public Library (SCPL) is holding their first Repair Café on Saturday, April 14, 2018, 10:00am-2:00 pm in the McChesney Room of the Central Library.
Repair Café is a neighborhood initiative that promotes repair as an alternative to tossing things out. At a Repair Café, community members can bring their broken but cherished items to be fixed on the spot, for free, with the help of volunteer repair coaches.
Examples of some of the items you can bring to be fixed include: small electric appliances (especially lamps and vacuums,) furniture/wooden objects, clothing/textiles, Dolls/toys, jewelry, watches/clocks, bicycles, ceramics and general mechanical (small items only, no gas powered machines.)
There is a limit of two items for repair per household.
This Repair Café will feature some extra special bike related events to including free bike safety with the Schenectady County Police Department, bike tune-ups by the Electric City Bike Rescue, free youth helmets (limited amount) courtesy of Martin, Harding, & Mazzotti, LLP and smoothies made using the power of a bicycle.
To sign up as a volunteer repair coach or be part of the start-up team, contact Dave West, repair coordinator, at westfir50@gmail.com.
Want to know more about the Repair Café initiative? Look at the international website http://www.repaircafe.org. SCPL’s Central Library is located at 99 Clinton St in downtown Schenectady. For more information on this and other free events contact us at (518) 388-4500 or visit us online at http://www.scpl.org
