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Carberry's Falk Pharmacy sold
Carberry’s Falk Pharmacy sold
Super Thrifty Pharmacy purchase and takeover the operation of local business
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Pictured: The Falk Pharmacy staff that those in the area have come to know. From left to right, back row are Jason Falk, Val Elliot, Leanne Gates, Brandi Stephenson, Becky Bjarnason and Jackie Burton. Middle Row: Ronda Allen. Front: Nadine Falk.
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By Gladwyn Scott Neepawa Banner & Press
Super Thrifty has purchased Falk Pharmacy in Carberry effective April 1. Jason Falk of Macdonald graduated from Portage Collegiate and then in 2000 from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Manitoba. He began working with pharmacist Dennis McMillan in Carberry and purchased the business in 2007.
Nadine Falk, his wife, graduated from William Morton Collegiate in Gladstone and the 1999 class of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Manitoba. They have two daughters, Vanessa, in Grade 10 at Vincent Massey Collegiate in Brandon and Natasha, who is in Grade 12 and will graduate from the Hockey Academy in Kelowna, BC. Their female hockey team was very successful and won the national championship this year. The Falks plan to move to Brandon and will work for Super Thrifty who own several pharmacies in western Manitoba.
Alana Bailey, an honours graduate from Carberry Collegiate, and graduate of the Faculty of Pharmacy at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland in Australia, has been employed by Super Thrifty in Brandon for eight years. She will take over as the manager of the Carberry location.
