With the celebrations of their 60 years at Bayshore Pharmacy in the Foodtown Shopping Mall now a happy memory, staff at the popular pharmacy and gift shop is hard back at work continuing their tradition of excellence, friendliness and providing all the services of a hometown pharmacy.
Nearly 100 friends, neighbors and customers stopped in the pharmacy earlier this month to help two generations of the family along with relatives and pharmacy employees recognize the accomplishments of the first owner, Richard Stryker, Scott Eagleton, who was a partner in the business for many years, and Stryker’s son, Rich, who is the current owner.
Photo credit: Tommy Pantaleo
Visitors came from all over the Bayshore as well as South Carolina and West Virginia to be part of the party, accept numerous gifts and enjoy a celebratory cake. Gifts included salt water taffy, sanitizers, a health safety packet, cosmetics bag and the opportunities for blood pressure checks by IMA Urgent Care and a Yoga Class. The class was taught by Laura Vuksanovich, the Monday night yoga instructor at the Port Monmouth Fire House community class.
Tom Stone of Stone Emergency Training, SET , who soon will begin a series of first aid, babysitting emergency and CPR training in partnership with the pharmacy, also presented gifs and information about his program.
Neighboring Foodtown, the supermarket started by Capt. Joeseph Azzolina USN (ret) and a neibhror of the pharmacy since it opened, also had pieces of their popular crumb cake for all the visitors..
Mayor Lori Hohenleitner started the ceremonies at noon with a ribbon cutting in front of the store, which has enlarged twice since it first opened in the shopping center on the opposite side of Foodtown.
