• Name: Kim Spurgeon

• Age: 39

• Family: Husband, Scott; children, Adam, 15, Alyssa, 8, Alexis, 7

• City of residence: Yuba City

• Occupation: Supervisor and server at 2 Bits Cafe in Yuba City; I've been there so long — 51⁄2 years — that customers think I own the place.

• Hobbies, interests: Spending time with my kids; shopping, surfing the 'Net

• Where do you get your news? Appeal-Democrat and Channel 3 news

• What brought you to the Yuba-Sutter area? My dad was in the military — we were in England from when I was 18 months old until we moved here when I was 6 years old — and he retired from Beale.

• What is your favorite memory from childhood? I spent summers while in high school in South Bend, Ind., with my dad's family. They lived near Amish people. It was neat riding my bike through cornfields and being passed by a horse and buggy.

• Tell us about a life-changing experience: Two things — My mom dying. She was diagnosed with cancer a few months after I got married, when I was 19 years old, and died nine months later. And two years later I was seven months pregnant with twins and lost both at the same time. I had to deliver them but they were too young, too underdeveloped to survive.

• What is the closest you've been to a famous person? In the early '90s I worked at the Sheraton Hotel in Rancho Cordova and waited on a lot of musicians who were performing at Arco Arena — Bonnie Raitt, the band Whitesnake, MC Hammer, Don Henley — Sonny Bono when he was campaigning for Congress.

• Favorite musical group: Point of Grace and anything on KLove radio

• Favorite television show: "America's Next Top Model"

• Favorite sports team: Oakland A's

• Who do you most admire and why? My mother because she didn't have a job outside the home or a driver's license ever and raised six kids. I never heard her complain.

• What are your favorite places to go in the Yuba-Sutter area? The new Gauche Aquatic Park in Yuba City