Community Power New Mexico Celebrates Ribbon Cutting of Otero County Labor Hub and Tool Library

Have you ever needed to borrow a tool or an electric saw to complete a job but not had one available? Have you needed  place to focus on that handyman of handywomans project but didn't have a safe place to use tools? Well, a nonprofit organization in Otero County has solved that problem for you, and it is free!

The Labor Hub located at 1110 Indiana at 12th Street has taken an area of the old St. John's Episcopal Church which has not been used in decades and restored the rooms to make it a free community tool library and work hub.  The church building itself is one of the historic older buildings of Alamogordo on the back side of Otero Arts. The rooms for this new nonprofit venture were once a blind school built by another nonprofit and eventually donated to the church. Jacob Justus a church Vestry Member claims "its only fitting to again have the rooms refurbished and again open to the community in an effort of community building, rehabilitating and enhancing the neighborhood."

The chuch itself has been in transition, the Reverend Simone Drinkwater concluded her Rectorship at St. John's Alamogordo on February 8th, 2025 after 6 years there.  She has accepted a position at another church in the diocese. The south wing of the church has previously served as a building for St. John's Day School., the Pre-K education center that is now loacted on the property next to St. Johns. The decision to host the CPNM's Tool Library was made by the Bishop's Committee at St. John's which is the current governing body of St. John's and was formed after Mother Simone has accepted her new position.

Community Power organizer and founder Evan Lambert says his team of volunteers has put in "over 320 hours rehabilitating this rooms hosting this hub" and its an act of community creating a first of its kind community building and tool hub in southern New Mexico. 

Hear an interview with Evan Lambert on KALH radio to learn more...

https://youtu.be/ni37ci2V8b4

All of the tools were donated and the use is free to the public as a lending library of tools. 
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