MY FAVORITE RECIPES By Mary Collins: Meet Julie Roberts

Julie Roberts came to Whitman County in the early 1980s when her family moved to Hooper so her Dad could take a job on the Harder ranch. She graduated from LaCrosse High School and stayed in the area. She is married to Cam Roberts, and they live on the farm and run mostly black Angus cattle.

Meanwhile her mom, Darlene Kates, took over the Dusty Café in the late 1980s. Mother and daughter operated the café together until June of 2005. At that time, Darlene went to work at one of the institutions at Medical Lake, and Julie took a job at LaCrosse school as a bus driver and one day a week in the k...