{"id":468285,"date":"2026-10-16T23:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468285\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:17:26","slug":"lake-highlands-exchange-club-donates-car-seats-to-dallas-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468285\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Highlands Exchange Club donates car seats to Dallas police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Resized_20261016_084827_1792158590616.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128358\" class=\"wp-image-128358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Resized_20261016_084827_1792158590616.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"886\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-128358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Matt Sears.<\/p>\n<p>The Exchange Club of Lake Highlands donated two three-in-one car seats and two booster seats to the Dallas Police Department on Thursday, Oct. 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Matt Sears, director of communications for the Exchange Club of Lake Highlands, Dallas police had to transport a child without a car seat this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile fortunately not too often, occasionally DPD has to transport children (including infants) in the line of duty,\u201d Sears said. \u201cThey have historically relied on donated car seats to do so, often being used or expired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officer Gabe Ortiz requested car seat donations, and the club responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDPD answers the community\u2019s call for help every day, so when [DPD] called the club asking for help, we were happy to answer that call,\u201d said Dave Wittenberg, director of community service for the Exchange Club of Lake Highlands.<\/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\/10\/1792192646_269_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 Matt Sears. The Exchange Club of Lake Highlands donated two three-in-one car seats and two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[112298,4081,159329,11349,150119,962,159330,159331,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-468285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-car-seat","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-dave-wittenberg","tag-donation","tag-exchange-club-of-lake-highlands","tag-lake-highlands","tag-matt-sears","tag-officer-gabe-ortiz","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468285","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=468285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}