SIRCH Repair Cafe

Bring your broken toasters, your snowblowers, your shirts in need of mending! At Haliburton’s monthly Repair Cafe, you’re sure to find the fix you’re looking for! That’s the message SIRCH Program Coordinator Dianne Woodcock hopes to spread far and wide. The Haliburton Repair Cafe is open for the season and the many volunteer fixers are ready to take on whatever challenges local residents have to offer. From jewelry and clothing repairs, to electronic devices or even ceramics, the Repair Cafe aims to extend the life of broken items and keep them out of the landfill as part of SIRCH’s founding principles of promoting sustainability. CanoeFM recently visited the first session of the Repair Cafe’s 2025 season and spoke with both the fixers and the residents hoping for a positive outcome. Woodcock explains how adopting this initiative, that began in Europe in 2009, has made a real impact in Haliburton.