Repair Café set for September return
After a well-received spring session, an international campaign designed to reduce waste will open its doors once again in Prince Albert this fall.
The provinces’ original Repair Café will take over the Margo Fournier Centre on Sept. 8 for its second run in the city. The event is designed to promote community building and recycling by encouraging patrons to fix broken household items to assist in diverting unnecessary waste to landfills.
The movement, which started in the Netherlands in 2009, launched in the Gateway to the North in March and operated until July to a warm reception, according to organizer Lillis Lawrence. So much so, the café outperformed the international organization’s standard repair rate of 50 to 60 per cent, coming in at 64.
Lawrence chalked this up to prairie ingenuity, believing it is “in our blood to try and make things better and work towards getting things to work again.”