Community and Media Advisory
Tuesday, Mar 26, 2024
Stash it! Don’t trash it… Save the date for the second annual Cumberland Repair Café!
Do you have items that you have been meaning to fix, but don’t know how? The Cumberland Repair Café is here to help.
Cumberland Community Schools Society (CCSS) is hosting a Repair Café at Cumberland Community School, Beaufort Gym on Saturday, April 27th from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This community event provides an alternative for household items destined for the landfill to be repaired and reused for free.
“We are delighted to once again be partnering with the Comox Strathcona Waste Management to help in their goal of having biannual Repair Cafes in the Comox Valley,” says Kate Ashton, Program Coordinator for CCSS, “over 50 items were repaired at our event last year and our goal is to double that this year.”
Lindsay Eason and Tina Willard-Stepan, educators for Comox Strathcona Waste Management, are excited to support this community initiative, which tackles waste diversion through public education.
“Repairing items is an essential part of keeping products in use, rather than immediately recycling them or throwing them out when something goes wrong,” says Eason. “Learning how to repair your own stuff can build lifelong skills that save money and reduce waste.”
Lake Trail Community Education Society held their second Repair Cafe this fall and doubled the number of repaired items compared to the year before. “There is a growing awareness of Repair Cafes in the Comox Valley,” says Tina Willard-Stepan, “which means residents are deciding to hold on to their broken items and bring them to Repair Cafes to be fixed, instead of throwing them away.”
The Cumberland Repair Café is currently looking for volunteers for this event. If you have expertise in fixing items such as jewelry, small appliances, toys, or electronics, please email us at coordinator@ccssociety.org to sign up as a volunteer.
CCSS is a registered charity that works to strengthen our community by improving access to healthy food, recreation, lifelong learning and a network of support. FMI on the Repair Cafe and other CCSS programs and events visit www.ccssociety.org
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For more information contact:
Kate Ashton, CCSS Program Coordinator
250-650-8305 coordinator@ccssociety.org
