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Salisbury's 'Fix-It' pop-up shop returns

Salisbury's 'Fix-It' pop-up shop returns

Expert fixers make small repairs to common household items at the Salisbury Congregational Church Saturday, May 23.

Patrick L. Sullivan

SALISBURY – Nearly 100 residents attended a fix-it event held at the Salisbury Congregational Church Saturday, May 23, armed with jewelry to be fixed, garments to be mended and knives to be sharpened.

The “Fix-It Pop-Up Shop,” sponsored by the church and the Scoville Memorial Library, took place indoors, including bicycle repairs, which were forced indoors because of the rain.

Nine fix-it stations were assembled inside the church hall. Karen Vrotsos from the library and Sarah Curtis from the Transfer Station Recycling Advisory Committee (TRAC) checked in attendees who made appointments ahead of time.

Fixer-uppers included:

Bob Palmer, knife sharpening.

Shepherd Myers and Paul Bacsik, basic bicycle maintenance.

Arthur Fort, lamps and small appliances.

Bob Buccion, small electronics and soldering.

Pastor John Nelson of the Congregational Church, small furniture gluing.

Steven Wolf, small furniture and electrical items.

Barbara Reeves, mending knitted garments.

Pat Palmer and Angela Lomantio, sewing and mending.

Karin Noyes, simple jewelry repair.

TRAC also had a recycling information table.

Patrick L. Sullivan
Senior Reporter
Patrick Sullivan has been a reporter for The Lakeville Journal since 2004, covering everything from town meetings to local characters and the outdoors. He grew up in Northern Virginia but spent summers on Mount Riga in Salisbury, giving him a lifelong connection to the Northwest Corner. A graduate of Denison University, Patrick is also the author of Tangled Lines, the newspapers’ popular fly-fishing column—making The Lakeville Journal, as far as anyone knows, the only newspaper in Connecticut with a regular fly-fishing columnist. He once received a fan letter from England, which he considers sufficient evidence that his work has achieved international acclaim.
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