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January 3, 2020Repair Cafe Rings-in the New Year
What do you do with a chair that has a loose leg? A necklace with a broken clasp? Don’t throw them away, bring them to Repair Café. The Schenectady County Public Library is holding their quarterly Repair Café on Saturday, January 11, 2020, 10:00am-2:00 pm in the McChesney Room of the Hon Karen B Johnson 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: small electric appliances (especially lamps and vacuums,) furniture/wooden objects, clothing/textiles, Dolls/toys, phones, computers, tablets, 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.
To sign up as a volunteer repair coach or be part of the team, contact Dave West, repair coordinator, at westfir50@gmail.com.
