Joy Sanders named emergency coordiantor of the year

Joy Sanders, Garland County emergency management coordinator, received the southeast area emergency management coordinator of the year at the Arkansas emergency management conference.
Sanders has worked in emergency management since 1997 and served as the director of Garland County's emergency management office for the past ten years. Some of her many roles include: certified emergency manager, floodplain administrator, technician-level HazMat responder, fire service coordinator, safety officer and 911 administrator.
Sanders has been instrumental in development of Garland County's local emergency planning committee and the Environmental Protection Agency has recognized her with four awards for that work. She has also coordinated the southwest area homeland security exercise and evaluation program's regional exercise for the last three years, offering much needed assistance to her fellow county coordinators.