If you’re still toasting bread in your oven at 350 degrees or passing off that hole in your shirt as a “trend-setting” statement, it might be time to head to the Repair Café this Saturday.
The Regional Waste Office is bringing back the Repair Café for another year, hosted inside the Okanagan College Trades Building at 1000 K.L.O Road between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The event allows one of the 30+ Repair Café volunteers that are available to help you fix your broken items, and do it for free!
“In a nutshell, don’t toss it, repair it. It’s a recyclers dream. These Repair Cafés are also about reviving the whole culture of repair . . . about changing our habits from a throwaway to a fix it society," said Rae Stewart, waste reduction facilitator for the RDCO.
The event is not only meant to have that torn t-shirt touched up, that abominable appliance adjusted and that broken bike refurbished, but the volunteers will teach you how to do it for future apparently irreparable items.
“Oftentimes, just by troubleshooting with a volunteer fixer, you may also come away with a new skill you’ve picked up by watching and learning how to fix,” Stewart added.
There can often be some wait times while the volunteers are rigging up repairs, so the organizers do advise that you bring something to keep you busy in the meantime.
If you’re a self-proclaimed handyman, the Repair Café is also inviting you to volunteer your time as a Repair Café Fixer to help those in need repair, renew and revitalize their broken items.
For more information about the event click here or call the Regional Waste Reduction Office at (250)469-6250.
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