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The Repair Café: Reduce, Reuse, Connect Serving the Glebe community since 1973 ISSN 0702-7796Issue no. Vol. 518 47 No.FREE 9 November 8, 2019 TFI @glebereport www.glebereport.ca PHOTO: MARY PAQUET MARY PHOTO: textiles and eyewear being mended as volunteers Fixer Blair was able to fix a beloved toaster for author Sarah Young and family. signed up the increasing flow of new arrivals. There - was a buzz of community engagement and social responsibility. ing new skills and building community. The library When our turn came, weFinding were greeted the Facesby a very of the Fallen now offers a Repair Café every couple of months. friendly fixer named163 may be a large numberBlair for suchwho a in thespent eyes, to see their afaces, solid to feel their 45their addressesmin on Google Maps or even map included all those who went to Glebe The Repair Café: reduce, reuse, connectsmall community to deal with, but it is just eager desire to do their duty and to sense taking a lunchtime stroll past their childhood Collegiate as well as all those who lived in the When we arrived, we were warmly greeted by a a number—inscrutable and unemotional. the 20,000Continued or more sunsets they were due on homes. page This helped 2 me understand not wider downtown area (including Centretown, utes on our four-sliceWe are all inured to thetoaster. mathematics of a Thebut never collected.original makersjust the individual do loss but the collective Golden Triangle, Ottawa South and other war that turned tragedy into statistics. We I spent time with each and every one of sacrifice of a community just like any other neighbourhoods). Included in this wider By Sarah Young study it and read about it, but rarely do we these young men, touching up the many in Canada during the Second World War. area were 472 men who were lost (with 25 handful of eager volunteers who signed us up and feel it. To really feel in our gut the sorrow poor photos from the archives of the Ottawa If a photo was not available, I used or more still to be added). This larger map that gripped our community during and Citizen and Ottawa Journal, reading the an image of the serviceman’s headstone can be viewed at VintageWings.ca—click indicated at which “fixer’s table” to wait. Each of the after the war, we need to look these men names of their parents and wives and visiting or place of commemoration. An original on the article called “Death Came Knocking.” - 15 or so tables was humming with activity, fixers on One Saturday morning in September, my kids and I one side and eager participants on the other. During 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 headed to the Repair Café to try to save our beloved our short wait, we were offered coffee and snacks. WHAT’S INSIDELangman Wilkinson Richardson Butterworth Robertson Leng Owens Hunter Nettleton McGovern Williams Cowling King Smith Stata toaster from landfill. The experience was memorable - As we waited, I saw lamps, small pieces of furniture, and transformative. The Repair Café concept origi 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 McKenna Flanagan McAngus Clarke Stewart nated in Amsterdam and is now international. It came Partridge Jackman G. MacLean A. MacLean Richard Goodwin O’Brien Box Barclay Guiton to Ottawa in 2017 as an initiative of the Ottawa Tool 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 Library with the goal of reducing landfill waste, teach McCleery Watterson Lang Slack Kingsland Moffit Maundrell Dowd Williamson L. Labarge B. Labarge Patterson Johnson Darling Twigg MARK YOUR CALENDARS 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Poetry reading, Octopus Books 7–9 p.m. Gray Orme Parker Morris Gardiner McKenna Hale Eagleson Dempster J. Courtright H. Courtright Claxton Quinlan Brophy Buchanan Nov. 14 .......................... Glebe Craft and Artisan Fair, GCC 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 Nov. 15–17 .................... Help Santa Toy Parade, City Hall to Lansdowne, 11 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Shearn Mison Millar Morrison Presland McFarlane Wilson Healey Dale Spencer Reid Little Golding J. Beasley W. Beasley Nov. 16 .......................... Grand Market, Horticultural Building, Lansdowne, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Neighbourhood of sacrifice ................Pages 22-24 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 Nov. 17 .......................... Glebe Annex CA meeting, GCC, 7 p.m. Bosloy Bussell Cameron Foster Watson Baldwin McGuire Anderson McWhinney Mansfield Boyle Moffatt Cohen Follows Lindsay Nov. 19 .......................... Art exhibition and sale, The Glebe Centre Return of the Mutchmor rink ................Page 6 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 Nov. 22–23 .................... GCA monthly meeting, GCC, 7 p.m. , December 6, 2019Cochrane EDITORIALHutt Steeves Anderson DEADLINE:Ralph Murchison Friday,Lochnan Crawford NovemberWindeler Ernst 15,Wetmore 2019Murphy MacDonald Somers Murdock Tone Cluster concert, Centretown United Church, 7 p.m. NEXT ISSUE: Friday Nov. 26 .......................... ADVERTISING ARTWORK*Book ads well DEADLINE* in advance to :ensure Wednesday, space availability. November 20, 2019 Piano concert, Southminster United Church, 7:30 p.m. 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 Nov. 27 .......................... Dennison MacDonell O’Grady Fresque Rennie Lowry Fisher Gilchrist Arniel MacIntyre Snow Palmer Harrington Johnstone Patterson Nov. 28 .......................... Ottawa Christmas Market, TD Place Christmas Bazaar, Abbotsford House, 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m. 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 Nov. 29–Dec. 22 ............ Booth Dadson Hill Olmsted I. MacDonald N. MacDonald Magladry Darling Eastman Ault Code Clarke Stewart Graham Burpee Nov. 30 .......................... Big Soul Christmas Concert, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers, 7 p.m. Dec. 7 ............................ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, St. Matthews, 7:30 p.m. 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 Dunlevie Morehouse Engler Laidlaw Swale Player Price Cowley Whyte Byshe Richardson Dewar Bradley Briggs McCann Sources: The Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada Newspapers.com—Ottawa Citizen and Dec. 14 .......................... Ottawa Journal (Sept. 3, 1939–Sept. 3, 1945) Glebe Collegiate Institute Memory Project (Research by Glebe students—an example for any school in Canada) Church and school memorial plaques— 161 162 163 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 downtown area Cleary Hogan Copping Sheehan Prosser Post E. Leftly N. Leftly Atkins Smith Angel Pollock MacNeil 2 Glebe Report November 8, 2019 COMMUNITY REPAIR CAFÉ Continued from page 1 not want you to fix it; they want you to throw it out and buy a new one. Blair painstakingly took it apart, remov- ing all 50 screws, fixing the levers inside and finally putting it all back together. He breathed new life into the beloved machine that is used daily in our kitchen. WHY TRY OUT THE REPAIR CAFÉ? Reduce waste: I am on a quest to reduce and work towards a zero- waste mentality, so I was thrilled to save another item from the dump. The Ottawa Repair Café and Tool Library emerged because people wanted to pool resources in a way that would benefit the environment. The fixers are specialists of all sorts, so bring along your cracked eyeglass frames, the toaster oven with the broken lev- els, that sentimental necklace with the missing link in the chain, the flute with a sticky key, the torn duvet cover or the footstool missing a leg. Don’t PAQUET MARY PHOTO: forget to bring the missing piece or a The Ottawa Tool Library’s Repair Café is a chance to save broken stuff from the landfill, learn something and be part of a shared replacement. You’ll feel so good about experience. diverting from landfill! Teach new skills and save money: one at the Repair Café was jazzed up, joy of working with one’s hands, of for the wise ones in the community. My kids are 13 and 15 and they young and old working together to fix teaching the younger generation and The Ottawa Tool Library in Mak- delighted in being Blair’s helpers, things, energized by a shared experi- of being involved in a resurgence of erspace North is located at 250 City learning the basics of mechanics, from ence. When we got home, my kids skilled labour and community engage- Centre Avenue, Bay 216, which is up levers and springs to keeping track of and I immediately started looking at ment. My teenagers gained hands-on the ramp on the second level. Upcom- the 50 screws. I was just as delighted a couple of old lamps and other elec- experience and knowledge from an ing Repair Café dates are November to save money by not having to buy trical items sitting in our basement and individual whose trade was taken over 9 and December 7, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. another toaster. felt inspired to try to fix a few things by the big-box stores and a throw-away Register at: eventbrite.ca/o/ottawa- Build community: Being a fixer ourselves. All in all, it was a great com- consumer economy. This communal tool-library. 792-838-1883. allows someone like Blair to use his munity and family-bonding experience. sharing of knowledge reminded me skills as he always has, even now that Upon further reflection, I see this as of how it must have been when our Sarah Young is a member of the Glebe he’s retired, and it gets him out into a way to create connection to your per- ancestors passed down their know- Community Association’s Environment his community, teaching others and sonal values, to the community, to the how to their children, strengthening Committee and leads its subcommittee building a sense of resilience.
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