My favorite recipe - Aug. 20, 2009

Meet Patti Meyer, LaCrosse

As a child, Patti Meyer was expected to help other people and work. This jack-of-all-trades still follows those teachings today and has been active in the LaCrosse community since moving there.

“You want to make a difference,” she said.

Patti’s father moved her family from Missouri to Boise when she was a child. They moved to her grandfather’s dairy farm and lived and worked there until her grandparents sold it and bought a motel.

It was in Boise that Patti met her husband, Charlie, who was originally from Illinois, but was stationed with the Air Force in Mountain Ho...