FRIDAY,MAY 18,2018 Inside: 75¢ One year into the Russia probe. — Page 5A Vol. 90 ◆ No. 41 SERVING CLOVIS, PORTALES AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES EasternNewMexicoNews.com Longtime CMS health director retiring ❏ Rhonda Sparks progress in the district’s health board member Cindy Osborn Moriarty, Tucumcari and ulti- Sparks would use to practice care capabilities, will be retir- said with Sparks leaving the mately Clovis. applying bandages and other has been with the ing at the end of the school district, she will miss, “just “I have been a nurse since I treatments. year. knowing that there was such a was 19 years old and so it’s “Poor thing, she went district for 19 years. Rhonda Sparks said she has fierce advocate for any child. kind of hard to think of finding through the mill,” Sparks said been with CMS for 19 years, She’s absolutely fearless about a stopping place for the thing about the doll. “I would treat By Jamie Cushman starting as a school nurse at Los advocating for the needs of the that has defined who I am for so her and care for her and so I STAFF WRITER Niños Early Intervention students.” very long,” Sparks said of her think I’ve always known that I
[email protected] Center, Barry Elementary and Born and raised in Grants, impending retirement. wanted to be in that kind of nur- Sparks CLOVIS — The longtime Marshall Middle School before Sparks spent about a decade Sparks said her interest in turing position.” director of health services for taking over as director health working in hospitals as a pedi- nursing started as a child when Sparks is proud of her Clovis Municipal Schools, who services director a year or two.