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Local Business and COVID-19: Karl Chevrolet

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What follows are responses from Leo Karl III, president of Karl Chevrolet, for our Q&A on how the local business is navigating the COVID-19 emergency in New Canaan. New Canaanite: What has the past week been like for you and Karl Chevrolet? Leo Karl III: Like all of us, each day has brought new information and adjustments. We have been preparing and making plans for a couple of weeks, so we feel our team has been very pro-active in dealing with the COVID-19 Coronavirus health threat. We want to do our part to be good stewards of our community’s health and well-being, while delivering needed services to our clients as seamlessly as possible. That includes adapting several new business initiatives.

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Podcast: Christmas Eve Caroling at God’s Acre

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free weekly podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Leo Karl III, one member of a group that formed a year ago to ensure that one of New Canaan’s beloved annual traditions—Christmas Eve caroling at God’s Acre—continues. As we’ve reported, the group is seeking to raise $100,000 toward a flagstone terrace at the top of God’s Acre that will serve, in part, as a place where the Town Band can set up for the caroling—a major recurring expense. Here’s a link to donate to the cause, and checks can be mailed to: Founders’ Terrace at God’s Acre, c/o New Canaan Community Foundation, 111 Cherry Street, New Canaan, CT  06840. The next $10,000 donated through Dec. 31 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, and the first donors of at least $500 will receive a custom-made, numbered and signed print of God’s Acre at Christmas. 

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Commission Approves ‘Certificate of Appropriateness’ for Planned Terrace at God’s Acre 

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The volunteer body that oversees God’s Acre at its most recent meeting voted unanimously to approve a proposed flagstone terrace that is to be installed at the top of the parcel on Park Street, opposite the entrance to the Congregational Church of New Canaan. The Historic District Commission voted 5-0 at its Nov. 21 meeting to approve a required “Certificate of Appropriateness” for what those in charge of the privately funded project have dubbed the “Founders Terrace.”

Conceived as a permanent space where the Town Band can set up for Christmas Eve caroling, the terrace is to include a 24-inch wide sitting walls and is designed to serve as a gathering space for locals year-round, according to the group behind the project. One member of that group, local landscape architect Keith Simpson, noted while presenting to the Commission that New Canaan in marking the 200th anniversary of its 1801 incorporation held a ceremony in just that spot, with local, state and federal officials, and a makeshift set-up of chairs and speakers. With the terrace in place, “if you had something going on here—and we don’t intend to have any tables or chairs there on a regular basis—but if you ever you wanted to have 200 people here, you just would close off a section of Park Street and extend out,” Simpson said during the Commission’s meeting, held at Town Hall.

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Hundreds Come to New Canaan’s Karl Chevrolet for 2020 Corvette Stingray Unveiling

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Hundreds of auto enthusiasts visited one of New Canaan’s best established local businesses Tuesday for a milestone unveiling of a new specialty car. 

Supported by New Canaan businesses and designed to support local charities, the all-day unveiling at Karl Chevrolet of the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray marked the first time that people could see the American sports car in Connecticut. 

“Everybody has been waiting for a mid-engine Corvette, including myself, and here it is,” Gary Trombly of East Granby said as dozens of people sat in and took photographs of an orange Stingray in Karl Chevy’s Elm Street showroom. Trombly traveled nearly two hours to attend. “Beautiful car,” he said. “It’s gorgeous. Well set up.