{"id":458893,"date":"2026-10-07T08:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458893\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:38:07","slug":"lubbock-leaders-honor-2-community-members-following-national-recognition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458893\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock leaders honor 2 community members following national recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The City of Lubbock is celebrating two community members following national recognition for their leadership and service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City leaders, including Mayor Mark McBrayer and Councilwoman Christy Martinez-Garcia, honored Bienvenido founder Abraham Enriquez and One Guy From Italy owner Gabriel Vitela during a surprise event Tuesday at Bienvenido headquarters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two men were recognized for their leadership, community involvement and service to Lubbock and the Hispanic community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The recognition comes after Vitela received national attention during a recent trip to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last week, Vitela was invited to the White House for a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. During the event, President Donald Trump called Vitela to the stage, putting a national spotlight on the Lubbock business owner and his work in the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tuesday\u2019s event brought the recognition back home, with local leaders celebrating both Vitela and Enriquez for the impact they have made in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The City of Lubbock is celebrating two community members following national recognition for their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[156948,17015,9935,26411,168,170,128765,169,662,156947,156949],"class_list":["post-458893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-christy-martinez-carcia","tag-community-members","tag-councilwoman","tag-honor","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-leaders","tag-lubbock-news","tag-mayor","tag-national-recognation","tag-one-guy-pizza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458893","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=458893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}