At our January Repair Cafe, we hosted a special Urgent Care Clinic for stuffed animals. Our seamstresses literally had their hands full.
The next Sustainable Suffield Repair Cafe will be Saturday, March 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Senior Center. At the event, we’ll also be collecting new, gently used, and worn-out sneakers, as well as small pieces of scrap metal, such as utensils and horseshoes. We’ll recycle the sneakers and donate the scrap metal to local introductory welding classes.
At our free Repair Cafes, we make electrical appliance repairs, mend torn seams, hem and sew on buttons, sharpen kitchen and garden tools, and repair bicycles, jewelry, woodworking, ceramics, and computers. For ceramics and woodworking, try to arrive early so glues can set up for a few hours before we close. You can leave the items and return before 2 p.m. to pick them up.
Free Windows 10 migration
If you have computers running Windows 10, which is no longer supported by Microsoft and leaves them vulnerable to security threats, we have a team of experts who can migrate your operating system to open-source Linux, a free, reliable alternative. They’ll provide instructions, too. So, there’s no need to throw away your Windows 10 computers. Please remember to bring charging cords with your laptops and towers. We’ll have a monitor on site.
Our repair record
At our previous Repair Cafe on January 24, we ran a special Urgent Care Clinic for stuffed animals, drawing loads of happy, giggly children armed with their stuffies. We hosted 50 free repair sessions and successfully completed 40 or 80%.
- 18 were for sewing, including 14 stuffed animals
- 18 for electrical
- 11 for sharpening
- 1 for computers
- 1 for woodworking
- 1 for jewelry
Two of our fixers made the extraordinary effort of taking home items for repair. We have 16 exceptional fixers who freely offer their services.
Visit from prospective Repair Cafe hosts
We met with six visitors from West Springfield and three from West Hartford, who plan to establish their own Repair Cafes.
Start collecting items that need fixing now, and bring along your new, gently used or worn-out sneakers and small scrap metal pieces. See you on March 28 at the Senior Center. We provide free coffee, pastries and baked goods throughout the day to visitors.