Written By Andrea Hotari

This week Andrea Hotari from Centre Dufferin District High School (CDDHS) shares a little bit about their experience and how Creemore Village Pharmacy is contributing to the community's future.

The Creemore Village Pharmacy has been in business since 1878, and for the last 7 years owned by Jennifer Yaeck. 

The pharmacy provides services like filling prescriptions, compounding and injections for their clients/customers. 

They also provide home health care which includes rentals, wheelchairs, and compliance packaging. Creemore Village pharmacy is dedicated to helping and providing support towards your health-related concerns and needs. 

My co-op placement at the Creemore Pharmacy was as a Pharmacy Assistant. 

I filled and prepared prescriptions, as well as priced and stocked pharmaceuticals. Not only that, I also renewed prescriptions over the phone, learned about the human body and the effect of certain medications.  

As I showed my dependability, I got to renew prescriptions on the computers and interact with customers more. 

When starting at the pharmacy I received proper training from the Pharmacists and fellow workers on how to complete my tasks safely and correctly. 

Other careers that are associated or related to this placement are Bookkeeping, Front Store Manager, Cashier, and Pharmacist. 

These careers are all very important and are needed to run a pharmacy. 

Bookkeeping helps out with the business side of the company. 

The Front Store Manager makes sure that everything in the rest of the store runs smoothly. 

The Cashier cashes out items to be purchased and the Pharmacist runs the pharmaceuticals. 

A pharmacy cannot be open without a Pharmacist present, but it takes all of these jobs to make a pharmacy run smoothly. 

The Creemore Village Pharmacy is very involved in the community. They provide bursaries for local students going to colleges or universities. 

They also sponsor local sports teams such as the Clearview Minor Hockey teams, and the Creemore Baseball teams. 

Not only do they sponsor sports teams, they also sponsor the local Creemore school.

The Creemore Village Pharmacy was a great experience with wonderful people and has a very positive impact on the community. 

Be sure to read the Shelburne Free Press next week to hear about another CCDHS students exprience doing a co-op placement in the community.