KHTS AM-1220’s February Unsung Hero is Dr. Alan Pollack, president of the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society, co-author of “Legendary Locals of the Santa Clarita Valley” and “The Santa Clarita Valley Then and Now” and internal medicine physician at Kaiser. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Pollack has played a key role in ...

Linda and Moe Hafizi are KHTS AM-1220’s December Unsung Heroes for their decades-long dedication to the community and its nonprofit organizations. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. The owners and publishers of the Magazine of Santa Clarita and Elite Magazine, the Hafizis moved to the U.S. in 1984 following the sale of their ...

Dan Sterkel is KHTS AM-1220’s August Unsung Hero for his commitment to volunteer and be involved in our community. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. KHTS AM-1220 chooses each Unsung Hero based on residents contributions and involvement in the Santa Clarita community. “We’ve seen a lot of changes since I moved here in ...

Jim Backer of JSB Development has helped develop the Santa Clarita Valley into what it is today, but it’s what he does when he’s not making sure foundations are poured that makes him the latest KHTS Santa Clarita Unsung Hero. Backer was born in California but moved backed to his mother’s hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, when he was 2 years ...

Joyce Carson is this week’s KHTS Santa Clarita Unsung Hero, proudly presented by Mercedes-Benz of Valencia. Joyce Carson, Santa Clarita’s 2001 Woman of the Year, has been living in the Santa Clarita Valley for more than 40 years and taught 32 years in our local Sulphur Springs School District. Now retired, she continues to stay actively involved in the Santa Clarita community. ...

DaAnne Smith, Executive Director for Single Mothers Outreach Santa Clarita helps single parents and their children by providing, hope, support and resources so families can become self-sustaining. She is this week’s Santa Clarita Unsung Hero presented by Mercedes Benz of Valencia. Smith has done her best to learn as much as she can. In fact she tried to learn as much ...

Arif Halaby, President and CEO of Total Financial Solutions, Inc., helps people manage their money, get out of debt and plan for their retirement. However, it is what he does when he is not keeping people’s money safe that makes him the latest KHTS Santa Clarita Unsung Hero, proudly presented by Mercedes-Benz of Valencia. Hard working from an early age ...

Jen Gerard, president and CEO of Whitening Lightning, does her best to keep the people in the Santa Clarita Valley smiling but it’s what she does when she not making people’s pearly whites shine that makes her the latest KHTS Santa Clarita Unsung Hero, proudly presented by Mercedes-Benz of Valencia. Santa Clarita Resident Since 1979 Gerard moved to the Santa ...

    By Stephen K. Peeples Gary Choppé, board vice president of the nonprofit Family Promise of the Santa Clarita Valley and vice chairman of the Santa Clarita Arts Commission, is carrying on his educator parents’ tradition of community service above-and-beyond. That’s why Choppé is the latest KHTS Santa Clarita Unsung Hero, proudly presented by Mercedes-Benz of Valencia. Over the ...

        Santa Clarita Mom on a Mission Against Drug Abuse Since Son’s Heroin Overdose in 2010 By Stephen K. Peeples As an inspiration to young people at risk, young drug addicts in recovery, and their parents, Krissy McAfee is KHTS’s latest Santa Clarita Unsung Hero presented by Mercedes-Benz of Valencia. The Santa Clarita mother of two surviving ...