Lake Country Faces: Helping others was instilled at a young age

Lake Country Faces: Helping others was instilled at a young age

NISSWA — Leon Zender credits his giving nature to his upbringing in Austin, Minnesota, where he attended a small parochial school and grew up a block from the church rectory, not from the railroad tracks. "When my neighbor, Tommy, and I were playing Little League baseball in the summertime, inevitably we would ride our bikes and we would come home and there would be two hobos sitting on the front steps, and my mother would give them milk and san…