In order to bake a cake, you must go through many processes. You need a recipe with ingredients and instructions. After gathering all the ingredients together, you have to mix them all together and then bake the mixture in the oven. Next, you have to level the cake by cutting off excess pieces in order to have an even layer of icing around it. Once the icing is on the cake, it is ready to eat! Baking a cake is a detailed process just like improving a neighborhood. Optimist Park will be an improved and better community through the collection of oral histories from the community members. Collecting oral histories is a process invoving multiple steps that need to be done in a specific order comparable to baking a cake.