Sunday, February 22
1-4 pm
Highland Park Community Center
Repair Cafes are community-organized events where volunteers come together to make small repairs to household items. We’ll have coffee, tea, snacks, and skilled people to help you repair your things. Learn more.
Sustainable Highland Park (SHP), the Borough’s Green Team, is dedicated to educating and implementing sustainable actions and practices that improve the quality of life for all those who live, work, and visit Highland Park, NJ. This includes environmental, economic, and social initiatives. In our capacity as the Green Team, Sustainable Highland Park aims to help the Borough maintain and advance our silver level Sustainable Jersey certification.
Let’s come together to clean up our community. Gloves, buckets, and other supplies will be provided.
Do you have a broken lamp that you just don’t have the heart to throw out? Or jewelry that has lost a few chain links? Could your bike or your guitar use a little tune-up? Could some of your clothes or other fabrics use a little mending? Anything else that you’re holding onto that needs fixing?
Well, you’re in luck! Bring them to Highland Park’s first-ever Repair Cafe in February! Repair Cafes are community-organized events where volunteers come together to make small repairs to household items. We’ll have coffee, tea, snacks, and skilled people to help you repair your things.
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SHP intends to join the international Repair Café organization. At Repair Cafés, people bring their damaged articles, such as clothes, jewelry, bicycles or small appliances, and skilled volunteers with tools help with the mending and fixing.
We are looking for volunteers to help make the SHP Repair Café initiative possible. Please contact John Caputo at johncaputo55@gmail.com for more information.
Also contact John if you would be interested in going together to the Repair CafĂ© in Summit – Sat, Sep. 27, 11 am – 3 pm, Christ Church, 561 Springfield Ave.
Mark Lesko has been running the cleanups twice a month for years and is looking for 2 dedicated volunteers to assist with setting up the check-in table, signing in volunteers, and breaking down the table/helping load his car after each cleanup. Cleanups are typically the 1st Saturday and 3rd Sunday from 10 am – 12 pm (9 – 11 am in the summer). He’s looking for one Sat. volunteer and one Sun. volunteer. You can also volunteer with a friend. The commitment is for a couple of hours each month. If interested, please email highlandparksustainable@gmail.com.