TAKING TIME TO GIVE Jay Dowdy has found that even busy people have time to give | By Kelly Twedell
estate, told Dowdy in the spring about a wounded soldier who needed help making his house easier to navigate. The soldier had hit an improvised explosive device (IED) while deployed and the explosion cost him his foot. Back home, the soldier’s two-story house needed work and the soldier, who was still learning to adapt to life without his foot, was struggling to make the repairs. Dowdy and his company paid for all the materials and labor needed to make the soldier’s two-story house more liveable and accessible. Dowdy was a military brat himself for 22 years and said that he has always been an
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avid supporter of the military and tries to say thank you to every service he meets. He said he also knows firsthand how much military families sacrifice. “The times you do have, make the best of it. It’s not always the length of time,
ike many people, Jay Dowdy has the desire to volunteer but not much free time. The Fayetteville native stays busy as the Broker/Owner of Prudential All-American Realty, a business his father started. Jay Dowdy has, however, discovered that big-impact volunteering doesn’t take a lot of time — at least not when you look for creative ways to give. For instance, George O’Neal, a Army officer who dabbles in selling real
