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Who's Behind the Counter at Great Panes?

People in glass stores ... make great things.

Name: Sherry Fackler-Berkowitz

Title: Co-owner,

Fast stat: This husband-wife run store has been in business for more than 32 years.

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On the key to the store’s success: Customer service. We’re a custom design studio.

On the store’s day-to-day:  It varies, which is one of the nice things. When it’s slow, one of my newest things is making the glass beads. My husband does the glass cutting and the restoration.

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Recent achievement:  We recently finished work on a church in Western Howard County that took several years to complete.

Favorite part of her job: The fact that every day can be a little different. Like Saturdays we do bead demonstrations.

Favorite other store on the Main Street strip:

Most challenging part of the job: Making sure customers are satisfied with the product, and cutting the glass. But I don’t have to do that.

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