You may have seen Joy Sawin picking up trash from the streets of Buellton with youthful enthusiasm. Perhaps she’s delivered flowers to you or meals to your grandparents. If you’ve
“I do it all for my heart and soul. It’s a great honor to be in this incredible valley of ours that’s a total slice of heaven. We can do so many things here. Everyone knows someone who can help, and if we need to have anything happen here, there’s a network that can make it happen,” said Sawin, who is the Santa Ynez Valley 2022 Volunteer of the Year for Service to Seniors.
A job transfer for her husband, Steve Sawin, brought the family to Buellton 45 years ago, and they’ve never looked back. Upon his retirement from the CHP, Steve combined his boyish joy in tractors and water trucks with business acumen in purchasing Valley Tool Rentals. Two years later, Joy started her own business, Parties a la Carte, which combined her excitement for designing celebratory spaces with full-service rentals of party tents and everything inside.
As the children grew and branched out, so did Sawin. At Santa Ynez High School, she got involved with homecomings, luaus and other special events. In the broader community, she was on the coordinating council for now-defunct July 4 festivities. She volunteered with Network for Youth, hung countless ribbons for Red Ribbon Week and more.
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