Free ‘Fixit’ Yourself Clinic Saturday at Missoula Home Resource

That doggone doodad whatchamacallit thingamabob isn't working right or not working at all!

You don't want to spend money on a new one or on repairs, but you just don't quite have the skills to do it yourself. Where to turn? What to do?

EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO REPAIR!

A Fixit Clinic is an event where community members can bring their worn, broken, or malfunctioning items for help learning to repair them.  Skilled volunteer Fixit Coaches help repair those items by sharing their knowledge and talents. The result is technology demystified, more people empowered with simple repair know-how, and less stuff trashed and replaced.

Missoula has an amazing organization at its fingertips, Home ReSource. Founded in 2003 by two University of Montana graduates what started as a volunteer-run building materials reuse center is today a community sustainability center that keeps 900+ tons of material out of the landfill each year, and provides materials and services to thousands of Missoula households. These days, Home ReSource has expanded services to include job training programs for youth and adults, a "Zero Waste Ambassador Program" for 5th graders, and community reuse workshops.

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT FREE CLINIC

Each month, Home ReSource offers a Fixit Clinic, where community members can bring in their broken gadgets and let the expert clinicians not only go to work to try to repair them, but train people to fiz it themselves along the way. All for free!

The next clinic is this Saturday, July 20, from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Home ReSource is located at 1515 Wyoming Street in Missoula. All they ask is that you register ahead of time so they know what it is you are bringing. That is done by completing a very simple registration form on their website, found here.