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Jerry & Jenny Zander
Meet the Zander Family Writer Barb Evans Photographer Loralei Lazurek
It was a Monday morning and Jerry Zander was getting ready to go to work. As assistant principal at Notre Dame Preparatory in Scottsdale, he was eager to start the day and be there for his students, but there was just one problem: about 20 javelina were blocking his driveway, protecting one of their young, and they weren’t about to move. He wasn’t quite sure what to do about the situation, so he acknowledged defeat and reluctantly called the school to tell them he would be late.
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Having javelina in the driveway is a bit unfamiliar for this former math teacher and athletic director from Seattle, but it’s just one of the small adjustments he and his family have happily made since they moved to Carefree last November. Jerry, his wife, Jenny, and their two sons, Jonathan, 4, and Nicholas, 2, have enjoyed discovering the wildlife around their home. It’s a lot different than the Pacific Northwest. “That’s part of what we love about living here,” says Jerry. “The scorpions will be something
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