I love my pharmacy. I know that’s a weird thing to love, much less even like: a pharmacy is simply where you wait in line to get your medications, right? So it’s unusual for a pharmacy and a pharmacist to actually make it onto one’s personal radar as a source of joy.

Crestline’s tiny local RX shop, Lake Gregory Pharmacy, is so wonderful that it stands out above the crowd of Rite Aid drug counters and faceless druggists in white lab coats. Pharmicist Jeffrey Marshall, RPh, greets you warmly as you enter the door. If you’ve been in a few times, Jeffery even greets you by name. You get personal, personable service from Jeffrey and his assistant, and they go above and beyond in the service department when needed. I’ve never met a pharmacist I wanted to give a Christmas gift to before.

At the Lake Gregory Pharmacy there’s usually no line to speak of, and there is a chair just in case you experience a “rush.” The tiny room offers a small but useful selection of health care products and OTC medications at inexpensive prices. The drugs themselves are sold at the best prices I’ve found on the mountain.

I call in my drugs each month - Jeffrey  usually answers the phone himself - and, when needed, he’ll call my doctor to have  my prescription renewed. Easy as pie. No middle-man, no uncaring cardboard chemist. You get treated as a person, with a name, instead of a number.

The pharmacy building itself is a tiny brown cabin - almost a mountain shack - set in a cul-de-sac of other health-related cabins in downtown Crestline. There is plenty of flat, off-road parking. The pharmacy is set behind other cabins for a doctor, dentist and chiropractor and is next to a hair salon. It’s a very “Mayberry” affair, but I like it.  Yet another reason to live in this small town.

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• Lake Gregory Pharmacy is located at 580 Forest Shade Road, right off Lake Gregory Drive.

• Phone: 909-338-1875, fax: 909-494-4415.

• Hours are Mon-Fri 10-5:30 and Sat 10-12.

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