MY FAVORITE RECIPES - Jan. 21, 2010

Meet Pat and Connie O’Neill, Johnson

If Connie O’Neill had her choice of a job, it would be to do arts and crafts. Instead, she does a variety of handiwork as a hobby, making things for family, friends and strangers. She especially enjoys making things for her grandchildren.

“I live for my grandkids,” she said.

Her husband Pat’s passion is politics, and he is now Whitman County’s newest commissioner.

“He’s loved politics all his life,” Connie said.

Connie and Pat were high school sweethearts in Hartford, Wis. Pat grew up on the farm homesteaded by his ancestors. Three times a day, every day, a...