Business

New Canaan Cycling Club Launches

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One of New Canaan’s new locally owned businesses is teaming up with one of its most-established to create an official New Canaan cycling club, promoting the activity and healthy living while connecting enthusiasts with one another. New Canaan Bicycles (formerly Cycles on Call) and Walter Stewart’s this week announced the creation of the club. Lou Kozar, owner of New Canaan Bicycles—and a puppy-ish 10-year-old black lab—said the club is designed to serve cyclists who ride out of New Canaan. “What there has been in the past are groups that focus on bike racing,” Kozar told NewCanaanite.com. “This is more of an all inclusive, all-around rider.”

Walter Stewart’s will be involved with every cycling event around New Canaan Bicycles and the club, such as the May 17 kids’ safety Bike Rodeo at West School (co-sponsored by the school’s PTC), and two months later, in sponsoring a team to participate in July’s CT Challenge, which supports cancer survivors.

New Canine-ites

Coltrane the Black Lab: Doesn’t Know What a Mid-Life Crisis Is

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Here’s our new installment of “New Canine-ites,” where we profile our local dogs. Last week, we ran into a pair of Labrador retriever puppies (prepare to saw Awww). This week, we take a look at 10-year-old black lab Coltrane, a New Canaan resident since age three months. Coltrane often can be visited right at work with his dad, town resident and New Canaan Bicycles owner Lou Kozar. Kozar laughs to recall what it’s like to travel to a client’s house in the summer with Coltrane: Homeowners lovingly offer use of their pool to the dog (while Kozar himself sweats out a repair in the sun).