SalemRecycles, The Bridge at 211 Partner to Host North Shore’s First Repair Café

When we reminisce about "the good old days," we might think of sitting on a front porch swing, sharing a cup of tea, easy conversation and laughter, and Yankee frugality. You might have lived by the old adage, "use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." Many homes had a button jar full of old buttons cut from worn out shirts, ready to be used again. Salem's Repair Café hopes to combine the old time feeling of neighbor helping neighbor with the practicality and sustainability of the modern recycler's mantra: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle—and now, Refresh, Refurbish, and Repair. It

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SalemRecycles, The Bridge at 211 Partner to Host North Shore’s First Repair Café

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