A Celebration of Life honoring Don Fleming, owner of Valencia Acura and president of the Santa Clarita Auto Dealers Association, is scheduled for Nov. 9 at 1 p.m. at Crossroads Community Church in Valencia. Fleming, who died Sept. 8, 2026, was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, business leader and community advocate who spent nearly three decades supporting local businesses, nonprofits ...

Don Fleming, owner of Valencia Acura, died Tuesday at the age of 84. Don was known in the Santa Clarita Valley for his work with the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation and his love of cars. In 1997, Don and his wife Cheri purchased Valencia Acura. At the time, Valencia Acura ranked dead last nationally in sales and customer ...

Santa Clarita lost half of an icon this week with the death of Don Fleming. The other half left us when Cheri Fleming died in 2020. Don and Cheri quickly became the power couple of Santa Clarita when they purchased Valencia Acura in 1997. Soon billboards sprang up all over town featuring a smiling Don & Cheri and their two ...

Real Life Church held memorial services for Cheri Fleming on Friday, a longtime philanthropist in the Santa Clarita community who has supported numerous nonprofit organizations. Cheryl Anne “Cheri” Fleming, 69, of Valencia, passed away from natural causes on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020 at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, CA, following a brief illness resulting from a brain ...

Former Santa Clarita Woman of the Year and Valencia Acura co-owner Cheri Fleming passed away on Monday. After moving to southern California from Ohio, Cheri opened a successful tanning salon in the Woodland Hills area. She worked closely with Donald “Don” Fleming during that time, and in 1984 the two were married, and moved to the San Fernando Valley. In ...

Don Fleming, general manager of Valencia Acura, was named the Chair Emeritus of the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Fleming, co-chairman of the SCVEDC, was honored on Jan. 23, 2018 by the Santa Clarita City Council as a founding member of the corporation and for ...

Holly Schroeder was named to replace Jonas Peterson as head of the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation

Jonas Peterson, CEO of the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation has been selected as a winner in the economic development profession’s “40 Under 40” awards, the first-ever awards program recognizing young talent in the economic development profession. “The people chosen by the selection committee represent a bright future for the economic development world,” said Andy Levine, president of Development ...