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July 18, 2018Get Your Stuff Fixed for Free at the Repair Cafe
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 is holding their second Repair Café on Saturday, July 21, 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, ceramics and general mechanical (small items only, no gas powered machines.)
There is a limit of two items for repair per household.
At the library’s first Repair Café over 80 beloved items were repaired. “Many of the things that are fixed have deep emotional meaning to the people who bring them in. We don’t just fix treasures– we sometimes mend broken hearts, too” says Repair Café Schenectady founder Dave West.
To sign up as a volunteer repair coach or be part of the 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 or the local Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Repair-Cafe-Schenectady. The Schenectady County Public 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
