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School Bus Drivers! As CYO turns 65, Hamilton More than 1,300 children ages 2 through

resident reflects on its 17 are served by the CYO.
The five locations serve additional
role in his life youths during the summer, and more
participate in seasonal athletic leagues.
Positions Available for Routes in Mercer and Middlesex Counties By Wendy GreenBerG The locations are at S. Broad St., Tren-
Ask About Our Incentive Program and Free CDL Training ton; Yardville in Hamilton; Ewing; East
If Tom Mladenetz seems at home in State Street Center in Trenton; and
the South Broad Street Catholic Youth Bromley Center in Hamilton. Before and
Organization center, it is because it is a after school programs are located in four
home of sorts for him. Hamilton Township elementary schools:
Mladenetz, now 56, started as a Klockner, Greenwood, Wilson and Lalor.
youth volunteer for the CYO of Mer- Its mission it is to enhance the lives
cer County and has barely left, except of greater Mercer County youth and
for 10 years in the recreation nonprofit their families, “providing affordable,
field. And, even during those years quality educational and recreational
he was a loyal volunteer for the CYO. services, which include pre-schools,
There has always been a CYO center before and after school programs, sum-
during Mladenetz’s life, and he played mer camps, swim lessons and youth
there as a youth. He grew up on Trem- athletic leagues.” Although the CYO is
CALL TODAY! 609-587-7883 www.dapperbus.com ont Street, and went to St. Mary’s Byz- heavily rooted in the Catholic tradition,
it is inclusive.
antine Catholic Church School.
His dad, who died in Led by a board of
2014 at age 94, was a trustees, CYO has
Mayor Kelly A. Yaede Invites you to printer, and Mladenetz some 40 full-time and
was a Trentonian paper- 90 part-time staff, and
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP’S boy. In fact, his dad lived Tom Mladenetz more than 100 sea-
sonal employees. Vol-
on Tremont Street for
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SENIOR PICNIC 80 years, and Mladenetz started as a unteers are coaches,
lived there for 25 years.
aides and other types of
youth volunteer
His mother, the daugh- volunteers.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 (Rain Date 9/14/17) ter of immigrants from for the CYO, The sites serve dif-
From 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. AT THE SENIOR CENTER Czechoslovakia, died and has barely ferent populations
earlier this year. She to help the chang-
Please join us for our annual Senior Center grew up in North Tren- left. ‘It’s part ing demographics in
Picnic. There will be much fun and feasting! ton on Spruce Street. of who I am,’ Trenton. While South
Catering by Risoldi’s. Enjoy activities & For his dad, growing Trenton used to house
entertainment, while chatting with your friends. up in Trenton meant the Hamilton many Eastern Euro-
Don’t forget to bring a lounge chair and dress 10-cent matinees at resident said. pean immigrants, and
according to the weather. See you there! RKO. For Mladenetz, East Trenton, Italians,
growing up in Trenton now both areas are pre-
Tickets $10 meant walking around dominantly Hispanic.
flush with $1 bills from In fact, the sign on the
Tickets may be purchased at:
The Hamilton Township Senior Center his paper route. He CYO parking lot says
609-890-3686 • 409 Cypress Lane, Hamilton, NJ started working at the Se Habla Español (We
CYO when was 15 as a Speak Spanish). More
Tickets Available Now junior counselor. than half the staff is

www.hamiltonnj.com *Must be a Hamilton Senior and “It’s part of who I am,” bilingual, and many of
show new ID to attend the Hamilton resident the preschool parents

says. do not speak English.
The CYO has had Mladenetz was an
that affect on many who have walked accounting major at Trenton State Col-
through its doors in its 65 years. lege, now The College of New Jersey,
The CYO was founded in 1952 at before he switched his major to recre-

Broad and Center Streets, at the Sacred ation administration. He got his mas-
Heart Church, the oldest Catholic ter’s degree in education from Temple
Bounce Houses for rent church in New Jersey, by the late Msgr. University.
Leonard Toomey, who approached the He worked for as a program super-
$240 up to 4 hrs. Diocese of Trenton with his vision for a visor for Princeton Township and

FREE DELIVERY
social services agency. The Broad Street recreation director for East Windsor
Bounce Houses for rent
WITHIN 20 MILES Bounce Houses for rent property was purchased in 1961, and it Township. He is still a commissioner,

FROM OUR ZIP $240 up to 4 hrs. BEST PRICE took three years to transform it. a volunteer position, for the Mercer

CODE 08610 $240 up to 4 hrs. Physically, the South Broad Street County Park Commission, which he
GUARANTEE
CYO can’t be missed traveling south- calls one of the best public park systems
east. The old RKO movie theater has in the state. But when his predecessor
a working marquee shouting “CYO.” retired, Mladenetz was tapped for the
Proudly, Mladenetz brings visitors to a CYO job. He had been an athletic direc-

balcony overlooking a gymnasium, an tor and a pool supervisor earlier.
Castle Jump Module House art deco room with a shiny wood floor Mladenetz often works seven days a
Castle Jump Module House and regulation-sized basketball court. week. The typical day starts at 5:30 a.m.,
FREE DELIVERY WITHIN 20 MILES FROM OUR ZIP CODE 08610 The building has preschool class- when he gets up to make the rounds of
FREE DELIVERY WITHIN 20 MILES FROM OUR ZIP CODE 08610
rooms for 90 plus a playground, and the sites, including in the four public
Castle Jump Module House is also busy in the afternoon with 110 schools. He is at Yardville by 7:30 a.m.
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“FunFlatables Party Rentals” youths for after-school programs on He represents CYO at many meetings,
South Broad. A fleet of 12 vans and and is the point person for each site.
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Call us: 732-877-3821
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Call us: 732-877-3821 buses fans out through the area bring- “I make sure things run smoothly,” he
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ing children to after school programs. says.

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