| | | | Spring Garage Sale May 7th |
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We're holding a joint garage sale with the Ottawa Outdoor Gear Library and will be selling excess tools and outdoor gear. All proceeds are used to sustain our lending libraries. 🌼
When: May 7th, 10 am - 2 pm
Where: 877a Boyd AvenueThus far the Ottawa Outdoor Gear Library has been operating with the help of a grant, however, their grant is coming to an end and they're raising funds to keep their doors open. Learn more about their Go Fund Me campaign here! |
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Our Earth Day Activities
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🌏 On April 21st at 6:30 pm, our co-founder Bettina will be speaking at the City of Ottawa's virtual event, Say Yes to Less, about reducing waste and fighting climate change.
Sign up here!
🌏 On April 23rd, from 9:30am - 4:00pm, join us in celebrating spring and eco initiatives at Re4m's Eco Market 2022.
Learn more here!
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| Intro to Women in Woodworking: Make a Planter Stand
This 3 hour women-lead workshop will introduce you to the basics of measuring, layout, sawing, joining, and finishing wood. |
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| Garden Tool Maintenance & Sharpening Night
Take your garden tools to the OTL spa and get them ready for spring garden work. |
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| Intro to Hand Planes
This workshop teaches the basics of hand planes, how to use them, when to use which type, and how to maintain them. |
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| Make Your Own Cedar Planter Box Workshop
Build your skills while building a cedar planter box with us. Learn to use the table saw, chop saw, drills with different bits, and much more. |
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| Bring Your Bike Out of Hibernation
Bring your bike to OTL, put it on one of our bike stands, and learn how to assess it's road safety.
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| Lawn Mower Maintenance Demo Night
This demo night will show you how to perform seasonal maintenance and basic repairs on four stroke gas-powered walk behind push mowers. |
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| WorkSpace Safety 101 Workshop
This is a required course for anyone who wants to use band saw, mitre saw, drill press, and drill in our WorkSpace. |
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| WorkSpace Safety 201 Workshop
This is a required course for anyone who wants to use a router, jointer, planer and a table saw in our WorkSpace. |
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Tinkering School Summer Camps Are Back! |
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Do you want your kid(s) to learn skills AND have fun this summer?
Sign them up for our summer camp where they will build their own cedar wood chair and make a custom cushion for it! |
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The Latest Buzz at the
Tool Library |
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Thank you to everyone who joined the Pysanky Workshops we've held over the past month in collaboration with Bozena!
Together we raised $1,297.43 which has been donated to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation  to support Ukrainian families. |
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