Santa Clarita teens spoke with the author of a book about military service when Micaela Bensko spoke at Global Prep Academy in Valencia last week. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The teenagers collected at their preparatory academy on Jan. 31 to listen to Bensko, the author of ‘The Soldier and Squirrel,’ ...
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Disabled Valencia Woman Booted From Airport Lounge For Having Service Dog
A disabled Valencia woman recorded a video of employees kicking her out of an airport lounge because she was traveling with a service dog, sparking a national outcry against Virgin Atlantic. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Micaela Bensko, a wheelchair-bound woman flying from JFK airport in New York to LAX, cannot ...
Read More »Childrens Author Micaela Bensko Shares New Book
A nonprofit organizer and children’s author is looking to share her new book “The Soldier And The Squirrel,” which explores the meaning of life through the tale of a loyal squirrel and a wounded veteran. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Since 2007, Micaela Bensko has been vice president of her family’s ...
Read More »Editorial: My Hair And Everything That Goes With It, By Micaela Bensko
By: Micaela Bensko | MoanaVida My hair. It’s a moan every woman has exhaled throughout her life. Rarely do you hear a woman expound upon the exquisiteness of her own locks. My hair has teased me my entire life with its fine tattles of do. Others found it thick and envied its mass while those who knew me would rue it too. ...
Read More »Editorial: When News Makes You Reflect, By Micaela Bensko
I got ornery today. It started out as any ordinary day. My eyelids frosted into slits. I creaked and needed coffee to rise. I tipped the creamer into my nectar of the bod and it splashed down the front of my chest, to my leg, and the floor. I sat there and wondered if the day was going to be ...
Read More »Editorial: Embracing Simplicity This Holiday Season
By: Micaela Bensko The fireplace illuminated the stockings with a flickered haze like an old-time movie. Christmas music trickled through the television speakers. Crumpled balls of newspaper scattered like tumble weeds as the children unearthed each ornament for the tree. White globs of flocking clung to their sweaters, swiped off by tiny hands only to fall into the fur of ...
Read More »Veterans Advocate Micaela Bensko of RAW Is A Santa Clarita Unsung Hero
Valencia Photographer and Mom Carries on her Work on Behalf of the Rebuilding America’s Veterans Nonprofit, Despite Personal Health Battle By Stephen K. Peeples As vice president and media relations director of Rebuilding America’s Warriors, formerly the Iraq Star Foundation, Micaela Bensko has been helping military veterans scarred in combat get free reconstructive or plastic surgery since 2007. The ...
Read More »Fundraiser Set Up To Help Micaela Bensko
The friends and family of Micaela Bensko, a local veteran’s advocate and writer who was disabled in a driveway accident, recently set up a fundraiser to help pay for her out-of-pocket expenses.
Read More »What Do You Do When Your Child Wants To Act?
BY: MICAELA BENSKO Our family is in the entertainment industry and it is a large part of our life. My husband’s credits include Co-Producer of Big Love, Production Supervisor on Nashville, Newsroom, and endless others. When our oldest daughter decided she wanted to be an actor, it caused me to reflect upon what I had learned over twenty years not just ...
Read More »Editorial: Sweetness – A Squirrel’s Perspective
What would a Santa Clarita squirrel say about life in one woman's backyard, and his perspective on what really matters?
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