Repair Café Coming To Schuylerville Public Library Feb. 3.

SCHUYLERVILLE — What do you do with a broken toaster? Or with a lamp that won’t work? Or with a favorite shirt that is ripped? Toss it? No way! Schuylerville Public Library, on Ferry Street, is organizing its third Repair Café on Saturday, February 3. 

Starting at 10 a.m. and ending at 1 p.m., various volunteer repair experts will be available to help make all possible repairs free of charge. Most tools and materials will also be on hand.

People visiting the Repair Café will bring along their broken items from home. Limit of two items per person.  

Small appliances, lamps, hair dryers, radios, clothes, toys… anything that is broken and small enough to carry is welcome and can more than likely be repaired. The Repair Café specialists almost always have the know-how.  

By promoting repairs, the library wants to help reduce mountains of waste. According to Library Director Caitlin Johnson, “By repairing instead of tossing, we lessen the strain on our environment.”    

This event is co-sponsored by Climate Smart Schuylerville, a group whose mission is to help the Village of Schuylerville develop and promote environmentally responsible practices.

Interested in volunteering for this event, as a repairer?  Contact Caitlin Johnson at cjohnson@sals.edu.  

The Repair Café concept arose in the Netherlands, in 2009, and was formulated by Martine Postma, at the time an Amsterdam-based journalist/publicist. In 2010, she started the Repair Café Foundation (see Repaircafe.org). This foundation provides support to local groups around the world wishing to start their own Repair Café. The foundation also supports the Repair Café in the Schuylerville Public Library.