From REPAIR CAFÉ BG
Bowling Green starts its own Repair Café!
What do you do when a shirt loses its button? Or with a bike when the wheel runs wonky? Or with a sweater with a moth hole? Toss it? No way!
Repair Café BG is organizing its second event on Nov. 11, 6-8 p.m. at the Wood County Senior Center in, 305 N. Main St., Bowling Green.
Various volunteer repair experts will be available to help make all possible repairs free of charge. Tools and materials will also be on hand.
People visiting the Repair Café BG can bring along their broken items from home. Toasters, lamps, hair dryers, clothes, bikes, toys, crockery… anything that is broken is welcome, and most likely can be repaired.
If the Repair Café BG specialists cannot fix the item, they can advise on what businesses might repair it locally.
By promoting repairs, Repair Café BG wants to help reduce mountains of waste. This is absolutely necessary, according to organizer Jennifer Karches. “We throw away piles of stuff in Wood County. Even things with practically nothing wrong with them, which could easily be used again after a simple repair. Unfortunately, many people have forgotten that they can have things repaired. Repair Café BG wants to change all that.”
Repair Café BG is also meant to put neighbors in touch with each other in a new way and to discover that a lot of knowledge and practical skills can be found close to home.
As Jennifer notes, “If you repair a bike, a CD player or a pair of pants together with a previously unfamiliar neighbor, you look at that person in a different light the next time you run into them on the street. Jointly making repairs can lead to pleasant contacts in the neighborhood.”
Event organizer Jennifer Karches points out that repairs can save money and resources, and can help minimize CO2 emissions. “But above all, Repair Café BG just wants to show how much fun (and how easy) repairing things can be!”
Repair Café Foundation
The Repair Café was formulated in 2009 by then Amsterdam-based journalist/publicist Martine Postma in the Netherlands. 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 supports the Repair Café in Bowling Green.
Repair Café BG wishes to organize Repair Café events on a regular basis in Wood County. News about dates and
locations of future events will follow as soon as possible!
