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September 12, 2019Volunteers Help Save Cherished Items from Landfill
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, September 14, 2019, 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: 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.
Schenectady County Recycles will be on hand to provide information to residents about waste reduction, recycling, composting and how to become more sustainable.
To sign up as a volunteer repair coach or be part of the team, contact Dave West, repair coordinator, at westfir50@gmail.com.
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) 388-4511 or visit us online at www.scpl.org.
