{"id":21851,"date":"2025-06-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/vote-doug-sparks-for-eea-board\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T11:00:00","slug":"vote-doug-sparks-for-eea-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/vote-doug-sparks-for-eea-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote Doug Sparks for EEA Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ba4ce41-a358-5d9b-b360-ebd942a1f4df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1680\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Empire Electric Association\u2019s members should seriously consider voting for Doug Sparks to represent District 1 in the June 19 Annual Meeting. It was my privilege to work with Doug for a majority of my 35-year career at the cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>I worked with Doug from when he was the inspector on the 115KV Shell transmission system through his advancement to department head of Empire\u2019s member services.<\/p>\n<p>Doug has done it all from assisting members with high bill complaints, developing energy efficiency programs and working with the board in developing Empire\u2019s first board strategic plan. He has a deep understanding of energy efficiency programs and Empire\u2019s budget process.<\/p>\n<p>Doug worked well with the membership, Empire\u2019s staff and the board and will require very little to come up to speed on current matters. He would certainly have my vote!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neal Stephens, Retired EEA General Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-861c6c01c8e7e5d8b402f57f677f0fd1\">Aurora<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empire Electric Association\u2019s members should seriously consider voting for Doug Sparks to represent District 1 in the June 19 Annual Meeting. It was my privilege to work with Doug for a majority of my 35-year career at the cooperative. I worked with Doug from when he was the inspector on the 115KV Shell transmission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter-opinion"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21851"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}