The Junction City Area Chamber of Commerce was the site Monday for a meet and greet for the Chamber’s new Membership Director.

Amy Garner, an Abilene area native, is returning to this area from Texas. “Love this part of the country. My family’s close by. And it’s kind of one of those things that I knew I wanted to move back in the next few years. This job kind of came up and it was just a perfect fit, and I was very excited about it.”

Garner is a 1989 graduate of Abilene High School, and has been working in recent years for  nonprofit organization in Texas. “I have worked in the nonprofit world for the last seven years in Dallas, Texas, worked for a hospice in long term care and did fundraising, sponsorship, relationship building type stuff there. I actually started out there as a graphic designer.”

Garner is working three days this week, three days next week and will then begin work full time with the Chamber in early April.