Now is the time to sort through your broken kitchen gadgets, faulty lamps and torn clothing and bring them to the Historic Salem Courthouse on Saturday, October 24th, 1-4 pm, for local volunteers to fix them for free.

Repair coaches (fixers) can work on items such as mendable clothing, lamps, jewelry, small appliances, electronic software, toys, and small furniture. They can also sharpen knives, scissors, and gardening tools.

A new feature of the Hebron-Salem Repair Café will be the participation of the Shoppe off Broadway, the thrift store on the Historic Salem Courthouse campus. Guests to the Repair Café can choose to donate their fixed item to the shop for resale to benefit the local community.

Repair Cafés are a fun way to reduce how much stuff goes into the waste stream, preserve traditional repair know-how, and pass on those skills to others.