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  • Volunteers needed for third Repair Café

    Volunteers needed for third Repair Café

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    BY NATALIA NAHON After two years of success, the Repair Café is coming back to Trafalgar Campus. Wai Chu Cheng, Sheridan’s Sustainability Coordinator, is asking for skilled people to help fix household items. Repair Café is an event where people bring broken items- anything from computers to small appliances- and volunteers repair them for free.…

  • Co-op students help nurture college’s green efforts

    Co-op students help nurture college’s green efforts

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    STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID The repair café, the sorting bins, the green printers and reducing paper cup waste are just some of the projects taken by Sheridan’s office of sustainability. Aware of being characterized as preachy and overbearing by students, the office has hired two co-op students to be its representatives. Michael McMillan learned about…

  • We can rebuild it, we have the technology

    We can rebuild it, we have the technology

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    STORY BY RYAN MARSHALL From torn shirts and drafty winter coats to flickering laptop screens and hotplates gone cold, about a dozen Sheridan staff and students brought their items in need of repair to the college’s second Repair Café, held at Davis last Thursday from 12 to 2. The event was run in conjunction with…