{"id":7512,"date":"2017-10-22T23:38:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T03:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=7512"},"modified":"2017-10-22T23:38:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T03:38:26","slug":"wellesley-rotary-club-hosts-successful-repair-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/wellesley-rotary-club-hosts-successful-repair-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellesley Rotary Club hosts Successful “Repair Cafe”"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is lurking in your cellar? Broken appliances? Wobbly chairs? Lamps that don’t work?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On Saturday, October 14, the Wellesley\u00a0Rotary Club held a “Repair Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>” and put many damaged or broken items back<\/strong> <\/em>into service.\u00a0 They are helping to add a 4th “R,” making it\u00a0Reduce, Reuse, Repair<\/strong><\/em>, and Recycle!<\/p>\n

Never heard of a Repair Caf\u00e9<\/a>?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> They are free meeting places that are all about repairing<\/strong> <\/em>things (together) rather than tossing them out. At the Repair Caf\u00e9 event, you\u2019ll find tools and materials to help you make many effective repairs to clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, gadgets, toys, etc. You\u2019ll also find volunteers with repair skills in all kinds of fields. There are currently over 1,300 Repair Caf\u00e9s worldwide, with more communities joining regularly.<\/p>\n

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Work in progress at Wellesley’s “Repair Caf\u00e9”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s how it works:<\/strong><\/em> Registered guest visitors bring their broken items from home. With the help of the volunteer specialists on site, they start analyzing the damage, deciding whether the repair can be done, and then picking up tools to attempt their repairs right there in the Repair Caf\u00e9. It\u2019s an ongoing learning process for everyone. If you have nothing to repair, you can just drop by to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee while you watch and learn. Or you can even lend a hand with someone else\u2019s repair job. You can also get some repair inspiration at the reading table \u2013 by leafing through available books on repairs and DIY.<\/p>\n

At the Wellesley event, specialists were available to repair the following items:<\/p>\n

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  • Bikes<\/li>\n
  • Electronics<\/li>\n
  • Small Appliances<\/li>\n
  • Furniture<\/li>\n
  • Toys<\/li>\n
  • Ripped\/Torn Clothing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    I brought an electronic ice cream maker that was not working.\u00a0 Will Biedron (of Needham!) successfully diagnosed the problem, and then\u00a0fixed it.\u00a0 While watching Will, I\u00a0learned a lot about\u00a0how the appliance worked, which was terrific.\u00a0\u00a0Afterwards, I\u00a0stayed around for a while to watch Will and the other specialists work on\u00a0a mixer and several toy trains.\u00a0 It was a great “can do” atmosphere!<\/p>\n

    And the Wellesley Free Library had a representative at the event, with a table full of repair books, and some repair-related items from their “Library of Things”\u00a0such as Toolkit sets.\u00a0 Minuteman Library card holders could check out a book or a toolkit right there<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

    The Repair Caf\u00e9 will hopefully become a regular<\/strong> <\/em>event in our area.\u00a0 Maybe we could even have one in Needham!\u00a0 So, next time something breaks, don’t throw it away – bring it to a Repair Caf\u00e9!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What is lurking in your cellar? Broken appliances? Wobbly chairs? Lamps that don’t work? On Saturday, October 14, the Wellesley\u00a0Rotary Club held a “Repair Caf\u00e9” and put many damaged or broken items back into service.\u00a0 They are helping to add<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":7551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-7512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-at-home","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}