{"id":445420,"date":"2026-09-23T19:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445420\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:12:57","slug":"four-lhhs-students-honored-for-character-academics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445420\/","title":{"rendered":"Four LHHS students honored for character, academics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790190776_895_IMG_1731-scaled.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128043\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128043\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790190776_895_IMG_1731-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2019\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-128043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Bill Boyd.<\/p>\n<p>This past Friday, Sept. 18, the Exchange Club of Lake Highlands awarded four Lake Highlands High School (LHHS) students with its Youth of the Month and Character Counts awards.<\/p>\n<p>Channing Black and Brandon Breeckner were named Youth of the Month, while Makayla Gonzales and Muntasir Manzur received the Character Counts awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese Wildcats have stood out to their teachers and coaches as model students in their studies and their extracurricular activities, along with their can-do attitudes to all that they take on,\u201d said Brian Till, the Exchange Club\u2019s vice president of youth.<\/p>\n<p>Each month, the Exchange Club of Lake Highlands recognizes students who exemplify the organization\u2019s values of giving back to the community, excelling academically and maintaining a positive attitude.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tShare This Story, Choose Your Platform!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790190777_809_DSC_2058-scaled-e1781720487598.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-72 photo avatar-default\" height=\"72\" width=\"72\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSyra Castillo is a recent graduate from Southern Methodist University and is the Lake Highlands Editor. She is a Dallas native and is passionate about local news. She studied English, journalism, and Italian while at SMU. She spends her time with family and tries to discover new places to eat across the city. You can email her at scastillo@advocatemag.com.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of Bill Boyd. This past Friday, Sept. 18, the Exchange Club of Lake Highlands awarded four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[146825,153683,153684,153685,153686,150119,962,80696,153687,153688,160,162,161,153689],"class_list":["post-445420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-bill-boyd","tag-brandon-breeckner","tag-brian-till","tag-channing-black","tag-character-counts","tag-exchange-club-of-lake-highlands","tag-lake-highlands","tag-lake-highlands-high-school","tag-makayla-gonzales","tag-muntasir-manzur","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-youth-of-the-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}