David Wayne Hagler has been playing in an annual charity baseball game for the last six years. He says that he enjoys being able to use his athletic skills for the benefit of others, and he enjoys being able to get back into Baum Stadium, the home of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team; he played on the Junior Varsity baseball team as a student at UA.
He is also a regular participant in several fundraising golf tournaments each year. One is held for the American Cancer Society and benefits local cancer patients, especially children. And another Arkansas Food Relief, an anti-hunger charity based in Little Rock. He has also been volunteering several hours a week to an adult literacy program.
David Wayne Hagler says that there are a lot of reasons to be involved in worthy causes, and he thinks that everyone should have at least one thing that they do that is a way of giving back to their communities and making them better places to live. He says that there are countless volunteer groups, nonprofit organizations, and charities in every town in the nation, and there are many different ways to give back. “Whether you’re volunteering for some event, or helping a neighbor in some small way – bringing in their mail or mowing their lawn – or just making a financial contribution, it’s important,” he says. “The smallest act can lead to big change. I like to think of every small act as the proverbial little snowball that starts rolling downhill, gaining size and momentum as it continues, before finally turning into something really big.”
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