Stephanie Holm

• Name: Stephanie Holm

• Age: 38

• Family: Daughter, Gyrlande, 5

• City of Residence: Plumas Lake

• Occupation: I own and operate Snapaholics.com, a large "Web shop" selling hair accessories, beads, snaps, clips, hair and skin care products, aimed at little girls. I also run a document courier business for the (California) Secretary of State, and I do remote administrative assistance for my cousin's business.

• Hobbies, interests: If I had time, I would pursue a more serious hobby interest in Gothic cathedrals. I also love criminology and I adore traveling.

• Where do you get your news? Online, online and online. And in the checkout line. I read the gossip rags and Gyrlande reads the bride magazines. Seriously.

• What keeps you in the Plumas Lake area? I am just waiting on the edge of my seat for the commercial (business) to come and the market to turn around. Then I can relax a little.

• What aspects about the community attracted you here initially? Affordability, the potential I saw here, and I do enjoy the quiet. And it's driveable to Sacramento and Roseville. And the stars rock.

• If you were in charge, what would you change about the Plumas Lake community? Commercial, the sooner the better. And I am really, really ticked that we have no parks with a water feature, not as much as one in-ground fountain. It gets soooo hot here in the summer, so I'd put a water feature in the large community park.

• What are your favorite places to go in Yuba-Sutter/Mid-Valley/Sacramento area? I don't really have a hot-spot. Gyrlande and I like sushi restaurants, although right now she is deep into a sour cream phase. The Brick coffee shop is nice but not really a place for little kids.

• What is the closest you've been to a famous person? I was an admitted "Star Trek" fan when I was, uh....younger. I think I went to 2 or 3 conventions. I shook hands with Michael Dorn and Marina Sirtis. I've also briefly met Gillian Anderson after her play in London (as in I was standing in the shake hands and get a photo line with the other zillion people). n If you were granted one wish, what would you wish for? I'll be dull and say 50 million dollars. AFTER taxes.

• Favorite musical group: I love medieval and renaissance choral music. So, I'd say Anonymous 4, and I have also discovered Imogen Heap.

• Favorite sports team: The 49ers, but haven't followed them recently.

• Whom do you most admire and why? Aside from my fearless daughter whose transition from orphanage life to life as a "typical" American kid has astounded me, I'd have to say Marie, the director of the orphanage. She lived in the U.S. for 7 years, and could have stayed, but felt such an urge to help the children of her country, and so returned to Haiti to start her orphanage. She also helps women feed and take care of sick babies, even women that are not giving the children up.

• Tell us about a life-changing experience: Adopting my baby, Gyrlande. I met her in Haiti at 2 years old and she came home at 3. Going from "it's all about me" to "single mom of a preschooler" was shocking to say the least.

• What was your first job? Mom and pop burger joint.