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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 by pioneerbasketball
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Member since Oct 2005
136801 posts
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 by Hogwarts
Arkansas, USA
Member since Sep 2015
18119 posts
Posted on 6/12/18 at 8:19 am to
So sad! I kayak occasionally and this is kinda scary.
Posted by YumYum Sauce
Arkansas
Member since Nov 2010
8575 posts
Posted on 6/12/18 at 9:22 am to
literally the stuff of nightmares. Freaking sinkholes opening up on a river I've partied on a few dozen times. yikes
Posted by boogiewoogie1978
Little Rock
Member since Aug 2012
17593 posts
Posted on 6/12/18 at 10:56 am to
Been there numerous times. This could have easily been me.
Posted by HogX
Madison, WI
Member since Dec 2012
5171 posts
Posted on 6/12/18 at 12:06 pm to
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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 by Pigfeet
Ark Mods are Fascists
Member since Mar 2010
19783 posts
Posted on 6/12/18 at 12:56 pm to
All of y’all need to stay off of my river
Posted by Maytheporkbewithyou
Member since Aug 2016
13144 posts
Posted on 6/12/18 at 3:33 pm to
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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 by sugatowng
Look at my bling Bitches
Member since Nov 2006
25401 posts
Posted on 6/12/18 at 5:21 pm to
Going next week...I don’t go down that far though. Stop at Riverside
Posted by Pigfeet
Ark Mods are Fascists
Member since Mar 2010
19783 posts
Posted on 6/12/18 at 10:14 pm to
thats a shitty little 4 mile float, but a great fishing float.

you fishing?
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