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New Canaan  Community Shows Up for ‘2023 NC Combine’ Benefiting Gracie Fund for Pediatric Cancer [PHOTOS]

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New Canaan’s Chris Falsetta told a stadium full of community friends and supporters Sunday morning that his then 12-year-old daughter, Gracie, was diagnosed with leukemia almost exactly one year ago, on Oct. 13, 2022. 

Since that time, many people have approached Falsetta and asked how the past year has been, he said. “And I say, ‘It’s been incredible,’ and I usually get puzzled looks,” Falsetta said from midfield at Dunning Stadium under sunny, warm skies minutes before the 2023 N.C. Combine began. “ ‘What do you mean incredible?’ Well, it’s been incredibly tough, right? You know that.

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Plum Plums Cheese To Sponsor ‘Combine’ Benefiting Gracie Fund for Pediatric Cancer [Q&A]

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A local business has stepped up to help sponsor a community event coming this fall to benefit a special nonprofit organization. Plum Plums Cheese on Cherry Street is “starting line sponsor” for the 2023 New Canaan Combine, benefiting the Gracie Fund for Pediatric Cancer. Created by New Canaan’s Falsetta family—here’s an interview with dad Chris about the effort— the Gracie Fund is named for the Falsettas’ 12-year-old daughter who was diagnosed with leukemia last year and is undergoing treatments. The Combine—organized by House of Telos owner Rebecca Kimball, a 2004 New Canaan High School graduate (podcast here)—is a fun athletic competition between the New Canaan Police and Fire Departments that also brings in community members to fundraise for a good cause. We put some questions to Gayle Martin, who owns Plum Plums Cheese with her husband Michael Riahi, about getting involved with the Combine and Gracie Fund.

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Who Knew? Valentine’s Day Edition

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Who Knew?’ is sponsored by Walter Stewart’s Market. Nobody comes to the leafy Connecticut suburbs for our heart-shaped hot tubs. Not only is their resale value questionable, but surely P&Z has a longstanding regulation against Atlantic City chic. All the same, New Canaan can be the perfect spot for a dreamy date, even when your date is the person with whom you’ve been filing taxes jointly for decades. You can find romance here in a cozy, candlelit meal, a meandering drive down a country road, or playing footsie while you read the parking ticket appeals.

Business

Local Business Q&A: Plum Plums Cheese 

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For today’s Q&A with a local business, we hear from Gayle Martin of Plum Plums Cheese at 149 Cherry St. 

Our exchange is below. Here’s a podcast we recorded with Martin just as the shop was set to open. ***

New Canaanite: Plum Plums Cheese opened on Cherry Street earlier this year, and part of the reason you chose New Canaan is because you had many customers at your original Pound Ridge, N.Y. location from this town. What’s the response been like from the New Canaan community? 

Gayle Martin: It’s been amazing! Everyone is so warm and welcoming.

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Podcast: ‘Plum Plums Cheese’ Owner Gayle Martin

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This week on 0684-Radi0, our free podcast (subscribe here in the iTunes Store), we talk to Gayle Martin, who with husband Michael Riahi, is opening New Canaan’s newest business, a cheese and charcuterie shar-coo-tree shop that originally opened in 2014 in Pound Ridge and has moved here. Plum Plums Cheese opens its doors at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 1st, at 149 Cherry St. 

Here are recent episodes of 0684-Radi0: