• Name: Florence Pond

• Age: 51

• Family: Husband Louis, 3 children

• City of residence: Live Oak

• Occupation: Director of childrens ministries, Good Shepherd Nursery School, Yuba City First United Methodist Church

• Hobbies, interests: I like to go riding on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with my husband.

• Where do you get your news? Internet, Appeal-Democrat

• What brought you to the Yuba-Sutter area? My father was transferred here when he was in the Air Force.

• What keeps you in the area? I like it here.

• Favorite musical group: Neil Diamond

• Favorite television show: "NCIS"

• Favorite sports team: I don't have one.

• Who do you most admire and why? My mother. She left everything in her native Japan — country, family — to marry my dad.

• Tell us about a life-changing experience: Having kids, getting married, getting this job

• Favorite quote: "Do unto others as you would have then do unto you."

• What was your first job? Sunsweet dehydrators

• How would you describe yourself? Outgoing, off the wall

• What kind of pets do you have? Rabbit, two dogs, cat

• What was your favorite/least favorite subject in school? Favorite, music; least favorite, math

• What are your favorite places to go in Yuba-Sutter/Mid-Valley/Sacramento area? Tony's on the Sacramento Delta

• What is your dream job? Backup singer for Neil Diamond

• What are some of your fondest memories? Getting married, teaching children, doing chapel at Faith Christian Schools

• What are your favorite foods? Japanese but I eat just about anything.

• Do you play any instruments? Violin

• What was the last good book you read? "No Dogs in Heaven?" by Robert T. Sharp

• Favorite movie: "Signs" starring Mel Gibson