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\n\nAfter a three year break\, The Rotary Club of Wellesley is bringing back the Repair Café\; Event. It will be held on Saturday June 10thh \;from 9:00 AM to Noon at th e Wellesley Recreation Center Room 008.
\n\nW hat is a Repair Café\;?
\n\nRepair Café\;s are free meeting places and they&rsquo\;re all about repairing things (togethe r). At the Repair Café\; event\, you&rsquo\;ll find tools and materi als to help you make most repairs. Repairs can be made on clothes\, furnit ure\, electrical appliances\, bicycles\, crockery\, appliances\, toys\, et cetera. You&rsquo\;ll also find \;expert volunteers\, with repair ski lls in all kinds of fields.
\n\nVisitors bring their broken items fr om home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café\;. It&rsquo\;s an ongoing learning process. If you h ave nothing to repair\, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can l end a hand with someone else&rsquo\;s repair job. You can also get inspire d at the reading table &ndash\; by leafing through books on repairs and DI Y.
\n\nPlease register as a guest if you have an item to repair. Ple ase list the item you want to repair in the comments section of the regist ration form.
\n\nIf you have questions\, feel free to contact John A dams at \;johnfadamsjr@gmail.c om \;or 617-817-0314. If we can talk before the event\, then we ca n make sure to have the necessary parts for repair available.
\n\nIf you have repair skills and want to help out\, please register as a coach.
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\n\nRepair Café\; House Rule s
\n\n·\; \; \; \;&nb sp\; \; \; \; The work carried out in the Repair Café\; is performed free of charge on a voluntary basis by the repair experts at hand.
\n\n·\; \; \; \ ; \; \; \; \; Visitors carry out the repairs themselves wh enever possible\, but repair experts on site can help if necessary.
\n\ n·\; \; \; \; \;&nbs p\; \; \; The fact that the repairs are being performed by unpaid volunteers reflects the allocation of risks and limitation of liability. N either the organizers of the Repair Café\; nor the repair experts ar e liable for any loss that may result from advice or instructions concerni ng repairs\, for the loss of items handed over for repair\, for indirect o r consequential loss or for any other kind of loss resulting from work per formed in the Repair Café\;. The limitations set forth in these hous e rules shall not apply to claims declared justified on the basis of liabi lity arising by virtue of applicable consumer protection legislation which cannot be lawfully superseded.
\n\n&mi ddot\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; A voluntary donati on is greatly appreciated.
\n\n·\ ; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Any use of new material s such as leads\, plugs\, fuses\, ready-made knee bends or applications will be paid for separately.
\n\n&midd ot\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Visitors offering br oken items for repair do so at their own risk.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Exp erts making repairs offer no guarantee for the repairs carried out with th eir help and are not liable if objects that are repaired in the Repair Caf é\; turn out not to work properly at home.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; R epair experts are entitled to refuse to repair certain objects.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \;& nbsp\; \; Repair experts are not obliged to reassemble disassembled ap pliances that cannot be repaired.
\n\n& middot\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Visitors to Repa ir Café\; are solely responsible for the tidy removal of broken obje cts that could not be repaired.
\n\n&mi ddot\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; To cut down on unn ecessary waiting times during busy periods\, a maximum of ONE broken item per person will be examined. The visitor will join the back of the queue i f there is a second item for repair.
\n\nWhy a Repair Café\;?
\n\nWe throw away vast amounts of st uff. Even things with almost nothing wrong\, and which could get a new lea se on life after a simple repair. The trouble is\, lots of people have for gotten that they can repair things themselves or they no longer know how. Knowing how to make repairs is a skill quickly lost. Society doesn&rsquo\; t always show much appreciation for the people who still have this practic al knowledge\, and against their will they are often left standing on the sidelines. Their experience is never used\, or hardly ever.
\n\nThe Repair Café\; changes all that! People who might otherwise be sideli ned are getting involved again. Valuable practical knowledge is getting pa ssed on. Things are being used for longer and don&rsquo\;t have to be thro wn away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to mak e new products. It cuts CO2 emissions\, for example\, because manufacturin g new products and recycling old ones causes CO2 to be released.
\n\nThe Repair Café\; teaches people to see their possessions in a new light and\, once again\, to appreciate their value. The Repair Café\ ; helps change people&rsquo\;s mindset. This is essential to kindle people &rsquo\;s enthusiasm for a sustainable society.
\n\nMost of all\, th e Repair Café\; wants to show how much fun repairing things can be\, and how easy it often is. Why don&rsquo\;t you give it a go?
\n\nWe are Not competing with professional repair special ists
\n\nThe Repair Café\; Foundation sometimes gets asked whether access to free repair get-togethers is competing with profes sional repair specialists. The answer is\; quite the opposite. Organizers want to use Repair Café\;s across the whole country to focus attenti on on the possibility of getting things repaired. Visitors are frequently advised to go to the few professionals still around
\n\nFurthermore\ , people who visit Repair Café\;s are not usually customers of repai r specialists. They say that they normally throw away broken items because paying to have them repaired is\, in general\, too expensive. At the Repa ir Café\; they learn that you don&rsquo\;t have to throw things away \; there are alternatives.
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