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Know Your Madisonian: Former Badgers, NFL receiver Donald Hayes returns to community center of his youth

The former University of Wisconsin and NFL wide receiver played a key part in that expansion and is now back to help the children it benefits. The EMCC hired Hayes, 43, as a youth worker after he moved back to Madison in August to finish his degree in Afro-American studies. He’s set to graduate from UW-Madison on May 11.