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LAKE HIGHLANDS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT’S ACTING CAREER FLOURISHES

Kameron Badgers, who found his niche as a circus performer in elementary school, has transitioned away from the big top’s controlled chaos to the feverish pace of the big screen. The Lake Highlands High School student earned a lead role in the film “Beyond the Bridge,” which debuted in April and chronicles the experiences of three young adults coping with depression or suicidal ideation. “It’s a really important topic,” he says. “I think people need to understand what it’s like, so they have something to hold onto after they watch the movie if they deal with something like this at home.”

RICHARDSON ISD ROLLS OUT ACE PROGRAM

Richardson ISD officially rolled out its $3.2 million plan to put its best teachers and principals into its four worst-performing elementary schools, each one filled with impoverished students: Carolyn Bukhair and RISD Academy in Far North Dallas, and Forest Lane Academy and Thurgood Marshall in Lake Highlands. Their attendance zones wrap around rows of low-income apartment complexes. The plan, Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE), is modeled after Dallas ISD’s program of the same name. Besides bringing the district’s most successful teachers to these schools, the program also provides additional services, such as tutoring and meals, before and after school.

WILDCAT RECEIVES DELL SCHOLARSHIP

Wildcat senior Reginald “Reggie” Mensah has earned a Dell Scholarship. Recipients receive more than $20,000 per year to help navigate the barriers of college and challenge themselves academically, even if they haven’t been stand out students based on traditional criteria like test scores and GPAs. The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation created the program in 2004 to support low-income, first-generation students and provide them with resources to ensure they earn a degree.

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Gibby Haynes

Lake Highlands High School Class Of 1976

What he’s up to now: Gibby Haynes was born into a show business family, the son of Jerry Haynes, aka. Dallas’ beloved children’s TV show host “Mr. Peppermint.” Although Haynes was a talented athlete, he moved toward a career in the arts. In 1981, he cofounded the Butthole Surfers, an acclaimed punk-rock band that has been making music for more than 30 years.

Three things to know:

1 The Butthole Surfers broke through the crowded punk scene in the early 1980s when Jello Biafra saw them perform in San Francisco and invited them to open for his band, the Dead Kennedys.

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Kurt Cobain cited the Butthole Surfers as one of his core musical influences. When the Nirvana front man’s personal mix tape was released for public consumption after his death, it contained three of the band’s songs.

Haynes was a basketball star, both at Lake Highlands High School and at Trinity University, where he also was named Accounting Student of the Year. “I was always a real good shot,” he told Rolling Stone in 1996. “I may still have records in high school, but I made, like, 80 percent free throws and 50, 60 percent field goals and … what was the question?

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