"Your family deserves a lifetime of good vision"
Family First Optometry
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Family First Optometry offers complete eye and vision care services to Vernon BC, Coldstream, Armstrong and surrounding communities. We’re dedicated to making eyecare and vision correction a hassle-free experience for today’s busy lives. Our clinic and optical boutique at 5100 Anderson Way is fully wheelchair accessible and very child-friendly. See us for an eye exam. Your family deserves a lifetime of good vision.
RETIREMENT NOTICE!
Louise McCarthy will be retiring at the end of the month to spend more time with her family, to travel and to work in her beautiful home garden. She has worked for Family First Optometry since 2022. Louise is known by many Vernonites and optical industry professionals as a cheery, caring and highly skilled optician.
In a career that spanned 42 years, Louise started at Haida Optical Laboratory in Vancouver in 1983. She owned and operated Sooke Family Optical in Sooke, BC for ten years, worked at London Optical in Victoria, Visions 1hr Optical in Nanaimo, and as a manager at Boutique Optique in Mayfair Mall, Victoria.
She moved to Vernon in 2017 to work with Discovery Optometry retiring (for the first time) in 2021. We were delighted to bring Louise out of a brief retirement to join our team in 2022.
Louise says about her career: “I’ve always been happy to go to work each day knowing I was going to help someone see better.”
Louise has been an incredibly valuable member of our team! We will dearly miss working with our beloved colleague, friend and mentor. Louise ‘s last day at Family First Optometry is February 28.
Louise McCarthy will be retiring at the end of the month to spend more time with her family, to travel and to work in her beautiful home garden. She has worked for Family First Optometry since 2022. Louise is known by many Vernonites and optical industry professionals as a cheery, caring and highly skilled optician.
In a career that spanned 42 years, Louise started at Haida Optical Laboratory in Vancouver in 1983. She owned and operated Sooke Family Optical in Sooke, BC for ten years, worked at London Optical in Victoria, Visions 1hr Optical in Nanaimo, and as a manager at Boutique Optique in Mayfair Mall, Victoria.
She moved to Vernon in 2017 to work with Discovery Optometry retiring (for the first time) in 2021. We were delighted to bring Louise out of a brief retirement to join our team in 2022.
Louise says about her career: “I’ve always been happy to go to work each day knowing I was going to help someone see better.”
Louise has been an incredibly valuable member of our team! We will dearly miss working with our beloved colleague, friend and mentor. Louise ‘s last day at Family First Optometry is February 28.
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Address
#112, 5100 Anderson Way Vernon, BC V1T 9V2
Phone
(250) 541-9292
Fax
(778) 506-2401
Hours of Operation
| Tue | 9 am - 5 pm |
| Wed | 9 am - 5 pm |
| Thurs | 9 am - 5 pm |
| Friday | 9 am - 5 pm |
| Sat | 10 am - 4 pm |
| Closed Sundays, Mondays and Stat Holidays | |
