Slow Echuca-Moama – supported by Echuca Moama Tourism — are hosting the second Echuca-Moama Repair Cafe´ at the Visitor Centre at 10am.
Following on from the success of the last Repair Cafe´ in September, this event will focus on bike repairs, mending clothes, and making Boomerang Bags.
Launched by the local group, which is working towards establishing the towns as the fourth official slow city in Australia (under the Italian Cittaslow accreditation), the campaign aims to improve the quality of life in certified towns, linking them to the wider cultural trend known as the slow movement.
Slow committee member, Lauri Melvillle, said being an accredited slow city will have great benefits for the twin towns.
“Slow means bringing together all the great thing we are doing already as a community and support each other to know what’s going on in the community,” she said.
“Echuca Moama is good at having a huge variety of activities, but not that great at communicating to each other about what’s going on.
“To bring them under one banner and highlight to both locals and tourists what’s happening is really good.”
Lauri explained at the heart of Cittaslow accreditation is adopting and promoting environmentally conscious practices.
“Reducing waste, teaching skills that aren’t as common any more, by doing that your meeting new people and brining the community together,” she said.
Local business owner Greg Byrne will be down to the Visitor’s Centre this Saturday to lend and hand fixing bikes and mending jeans.
“Older generations used everything at their disposal, whereas now we seem to just dispose and buy new, especially clothes,” he said.
“If my kids come along, they might just learn the simple thing of sewing a button back on to clothes.
“It’s only a good thing do this.