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Addiction Recovery Advocate Dies While Saving Others From Whirlpool In Spring River
Posted on 6/12/18 at 1:40 am
Posted on 6/12/18 at 1:40 am
Quality Thread #126
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UPDATE -- Someone who lived to serve others died this weekend doing just that. Arkansas Game and Fish believe a sinkhole killed a kayaker on the Spring River in north Arkansas after it created a whirlpool.
Donny Wright wasn't a stranger to outdoors and especially water. He's kayaked before, but this Saturday, June 9, he died while helping others.
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"He was an amazing Godly man, a big old hippie. He loved the outdoors, he loved tie die, he loved his hair being long," said Wright’s daughter, Selah Neal.
Neal and her brother Levi Wright told us that during their father’s life he helped thousands of people. He helped people with addiction recovery through his Life Recovery Center, which he opened in his own Searcy home two years ago.
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Game and Fish report a sinkhole opened up creating this whirlpool. Wright, while saving the life of someone else who was being sucked in, was pulled in himself.
"His kayak overturned and he couldn’t get out from under it," said Neal.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 8:19 am to pioneerbasketball
So sad! I kayak occasionally and this is kinda scary.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 9:22 am to Hogwarts
literally the stuff of nightmares. Freaking sinkholes opening up on a river I've partied on a few dozen times. yikes
Posted on 6/12/18 at 10:56 am to YumYum Sauce
Been there numerous times. This could have easily been me.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 12:06 pm to boogiewoogie1978
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Been there numerous times. This could have easily been me.
It's a miracle I never died on Spring River and it had nothing to do with whirlpools.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 12:56 pm to HogX
All of y’all need to stay off of my river
Posted on 6/12/18 at 3:33 pm to Pigfeet
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All of y’all need to stay off of my river
You can have it. I prefer the Bryant River in Missouri.
Posted on 6/12/18 at 5:21 pm to Pigfeet
Going next week...I don’t go down that far though. Stop at Riverside
Posted on 6/12/18 at 10:14 pm to sugatowng
thats a shitty little 4 mile float, but a great fishing float.
you fishing?
you fishing?
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