Around Town

‘We Are a Place That Can Receive People’: Despite Executive Order, Nonprofit ‘NC Welcomes’ Readies for Refugee Family

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For Cindy Stewart, a New Canaan resident for 11 years, recent changes in the United States’ immigration policies are an opportunity to teach her teenage children lessons in democracy. Chief among those is “to make their own voices heard,” according to Stewart. “I feel like it’s important for us to model that for them and to show them to stand up for what we believe in and I want to support our view for what this nation is all about, and this is part of our process,” Stewart said Sunday afternoon from Morrill Hall at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, moments after signing up for the ‘Welcome’ and ‘Transportation’ committees of a newly formed New Canaan group seeking to help resettle a refugee family. “We talk a lot at home over the dinner table about the political situation in Syria.

Around Town

Did You Hear … ?

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New Canaan Police on Monday investigated a residential, daytime burglary on Birchwood Avenue. Police Chief Leon Krolikowski said that force was used to enter the house, no alarm was set and it’s not yet clear if anything was taken. On Tuesday, police began investigating a similar burglary on Old Stamford Road. The incidents are promoting Krolikowski to urge residents to always set their home and vehicle alarms, lock up, secure all valuables and report suspicious people and vehicles to the police via 9-1-1. Here’s a full list of ways to “Beat the Burglars,” from the chief.

Business

New Canaan Interior Designer Krista Fox Launches Retail Shop, Live Event Venue on Cherry Street

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New Canaan’s Krista Fox launched her eponymous interior design firm in 1994, and the intervening years have seen her split time between the business and raising her family here in town. A resident since 2001, she’s volunteered as a homeroom mom and been deeply involved in elementary school performing arts committee, as her kids—the youngest of three now a New Canaan High School senior—have played football, lacrosse and field hockey, spent time at the Y and participated in the National Charity League’s New Canaan Chapter. “I was doing it [interior design] as the kids were growing up and it has been a wonderful career for me, it was there when I needed it,” Fox said on a recent morning from a newly renovated and decorated space at 107 Cherry St. “When I had time, I could take on more and when I didn’t, I could back off from it. That’s the leap when it comes to retail: Your door is open.