My favorite recipes - Meet Cinnamon Brown, Pullman

When Cinnamon Brown was attending Washington State University for a degree in biology with a secondary teaching certificate, she thought she would use them to teach biology in school. She still gets to educate people, but as an environmental specialist for the Whitman County Environmental Health Department.

Cinnamon grew up in Spanaway. She met her husband, Mike, in band and they started dating in 10th grade—back in the day of Smurfs and basketball games, as Cinnamon put it.

They were in pep band and marching band together; now they do a lot on computers.

“We’re both geeks,” Cinnamon said with...