What do you like most about the town where you live (or your hometown)? What would you change about it?

The most I like about Oroville is that it has a lot of different place to fish, swim, and camp, because I am a outdoor guy and I love to go fishing. The name Oroville means, (the city of gold), and the reason why they gave this town that name is because back in the late 1920's when they first discover gold in the rivers, everyone was pany in the rivers and in Oroville, there is a river called the Father River that had fresh clear water and it was filled with gold that hasn't been discover. The Father River wasn't just filled with just gold. Once spring starts, the salmon that comes from the ocean to mate in the fresh water of the Father River and that brought fisher men from all over just to fish for salmon. Oroville is great for the great big dam that was built in the 1930's. Every year the rain would flood the little town of Oroville until they built the dam and now the Oroville dam is one of the biggest dams in the United States. The dam is holding Lake Oroville from spilling out into the town, and Lake Oroville is one of the biggest lakes in the world. When the dam was built, there were little towns and house that were on the sores or the lake until it the lake got bigger and flooded the little towns and houses. Now the lake is so big that it was name one of the biggest lakes in the world. There has been a lot of stories about the lake that may seem weird or unreal but there was this one story that was true but it is hard to believe. A couple of years ago, the dam had a little problem where the fencing down below had to be welded together in order to keep things from going into the pipes and there were these two underwater welders that were good at welding underwater and they were just welding and doing there job until one of the welders turn around and looked around just for fun until he saw this big huge Cat Fish that was the size of a school bus and no one would believe them and no one would go down there to finish the job, but I think that it is already fixed now but I believe those guys because a lake that big and a lake that old there can be anything inside Lake Oroville. There is also no records of how big a cat fish can grew up to so it is possible. These are just one of the great storys about Oroville.

If you had the time to volunteer, where would you volunteer? What would you do? Why? (If you do volunteer work, describe what you do!)

If I had time to volunteer, I would volunteer at a head start school, because I like to work with little kids because they always have something new to tell you or they would always ask you things that are not that hard to answer. Working with little kids are a lot of fun because they have five to six breaks in a day and they are hardly in class too. I would be helping the kids paint pictures, draw stick figures, sing ABC, count 123, and I would be helping them play on the jungle Jen. But the people that I would be helping the most is the teacher because they cannot control all of those kids at one time and they need some help to control all of the kids. If I didn't have to work or worry about bills, then I would be helping kids and teacher for free because its fun working with kids but the best thing of all is having fun with them because you doing don't have all of those hard math problems, or hard English questions, you would just have to know how to sing along with the class and count the fingers that are on your hands, there is not much to it. When you work with the little kids you can act all stupid and the kids would think it is funny and they would laugh all the time, working with the kids lets you become a kid all over again and all the stress that you have will all go away because you are having fun with the kids. Just having the feeling of being a kid again is a great feeling because when you are all grown up you have to do a lot serious things and worry about a lot of things too and that would cause stress so that is why I would volunteer to work with little kids because it takes all that stuff away and gets you to relax again.