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Smith Brothers Pharmacy
Smith Brothers Pharmacy
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Prescriptions, Home Health Care Needs, Cards and Gifts
25 West Main Street Maple Shade, NJ 08052
Montegrillos Pizza and Restaurant
Montegrillos Pizza and RestaurantInformation
Open Lunch and Dinner
123 W. Main Street Maple Shade, NJ 08052
Woods Edge Apartment Homes
Woods Edge Apartment Homes220 S. Lenola Road, Suite AT5 Maple Shade, NJ 08052
Palace of Asia Indian Grill
Palace of Asia Indian GrillInformation
Healthy Gourmet Indian Cuisine
480 Route 38 East Maple Shade, NJ 08052
The Smoking Dog
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Cigars, Tobacco and Accessories
“Community and people are key,” Jonnette Kraft said. “Treat them right and they’ll treat your right.”
Kraft has owned the Smoking Dog cigar shop for nine years, almost all of that time in Maple Shade.
“We offer hand rolled premium cigars with experts to help you enrich your experience,” she said.
Kraft served for 21 years in the Army National Guard and Air National Guard and it was there she was turned on to cigars.
While she was on duty at the Fresh Kills Landfill there was a group of military and other personnel that would smoke cigars together and they introduced her to the art of cigar smoking.
“It was quite funny when I came home on my day off and told my husband we had a new hobby – smoking cigars,” Kraft said. “He was shocked because I hated smoking.
“I had to explain to him this is so much different,” she added. “It is a relaxing meditative breathing not really smoking at all.”
Kraft said she would recommend Maple Shade to someone looking to open a business here.
“This community is very supportive,” she said. “The township is very supportive and that is huge.”
Kraft said the greatest challenge the Maple Shade Business Association faces is “big government hurting small business.”
“Big government hurts us with their rules and regulations,” she said. “They project their morality on us as a business.
“People enjoy having a cigar once in a while and it is not up to the government to regulate us out of existence or tax us to the point that the state and tobacco businesses lose money to Pennsylvania and Delaware,” Kraft added. “The sin tax and regulations are not equal in anyway with any other business.
“They attack legal substances,” she continued. “If they hated them so much make them illegal.”
Kraft said the MSBA is not affected by the regulations she mentioned.
“I am sure our association is not in jeopardy from big government as it is very well run and everyone does a great job working together in the township,” she said. “I really am so glad we opened our doors in Maple Shade – everyone has always been so supportive.”
Kraft grew up in Kansas and Texas and graduated from Sweetwater, Texas.
She and her family have called Westampton home “for 20 lovely years.”
In her spare time, Kraft enjoys gardening, art, quilting, knitting, and smoking cigars.
300 S. Lenola Road Maple Shade, NJ 08052
Ocean First Bank N.A.
Ocean First Bank N.A.Information
We Want to Know Your Name
597 Route 38 West Maple Shade, NJ 08052
Dental Associates of Maple Shade
Dental Associates of Maple ShadeInformation
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60 West Main Street Maple Shade, NJ 08052
Stone Dragon
Stone DragonInformation
Chinese – Japanese Restaurant
28 East Main Street Maple Shade, NJ 08052
Pat McKenna Realtors
Pat McKenna Realtors
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Michael Woods, owner of Ed and Sons AutoGlass, Inc., says one thing he’s learned about running a business is how you interact with patrons.
“You treat your customers like family,” he said.
Woods has spent 42 years working at Ed and Sons, which has been in town 55 years.
“My father started this business and as a young child I learned the business,” he said.
According to Woods, what makes his business unique is that it is family owned and operated.
While he does not hold a position in the MSBA, Woods’ wife, Lisa, attends meetings.
“She enjoys learning from other town business members,” he said.
“[It’s a] great town to be in business,” Michael added.
Asked what the greatest challenge the Maple Shade Business Association faces, he replied “the current pandemic.”
A lifelong Shader (58 years), Michael is a graduate of Maple Shade High School who said spending “time with my family” is what he likes to do when he’s not working.
619 E. Main Street Maple Shade NJ 08052