The next Repair Cafe event will be on Saturday, May 4th. The Repair Cafe offers an opportunity for your broken electronic items to be repaired by a crew of skilled volunteers free of chart. Located at 624 S. Oak Park Ave in the Fox Center in Oak Park, Repair Cafe is open the first Saturday of every month from 10am-1:30pm. For more information, click here.
For Earth Week, the Oak Park and River Forest High School Envinromental Club will be hosting a conversation with Dr. Lauren Ferguson, Post Doctoral Research Fellow with the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program. The event will be Wednesday, April 24th from 3:30 to 4:30 at the OPRFHS SRC Learning Stairs.
On Saturday April 27th and Sunday April 28th Oak Park and River Forest High School’s environmental club will be holding their second annual thrift store. The event will be from 2-5 pm at the 1 east gym. After spending weeks of planning the group has started collecting clothes on April 1st and plan on continuing to collect through April 26th. Profit from the event will go to the Alliance For The Great Lakes and all extra clothes will be donated to other thrift stores and church organizations directly benefiting the local migrants. We invite all local residents to donate in the bin in the welcome center and enjoy the event.
From April 14 to April 27, Target stores will be accepting old car seats. Materials from the old car seats will be recycled by Target’s partners to create new products such as pallets, plastic buckets and construction materials such as steel beams and carpet padding. Guests who trade in their old car seats will receive a 20% off coupon toward a new car seat, car seat base, travel system, stroller or select baby home gear. More information is available here.
The Forest Preserve District of Cook County and the Trailside Museum have a number of upcoming events. Please click here for more information.