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Multiple Locations: Robbinsville, Plumsted, Freehold, Southampton
Don’t miss your chance to get Zigmont Targonski (left) and Ted Lange have been members of the
GST Transport Corp.
GST Transport Corp., Transporting The Future Yapewi Aquatic Club for decades. (Photo by Michele Alperin.)
into one of the most stable fi elds in
1088 Route 130, Robbinsville, NJ 08691
Transporting e Future
today’s economy. YAPEWI continued from Page 1 with waters reaching the second floor
609-270-4577 or 609-267-3380
Canoeing was popular through the in 1903 and making it halfway up the
’30s. “There was no fuel for pleasure windows in 1955. Lange, who grew up
1897 Route 38
Garden State Transport is
EAT IN • TAKE OUT • DELIVERY • ONLINE ORDERS boats through World War II. Before the in Chesterfield and worked for PSE&G
war was the Depression, and working as a lineman, joined provisionally as a
Southampton, NJ 08088
NOW HIRING at all our men didn’t have money for gas,” Targon- “guest” in 1956 and became a member
ski says.
in 1957. He jokes about why he was
609-267-3380
After the World War II, things accepted: “There had been a flood here
locations. 310 Ward Avenue, changed. “You had people who were the year before and there were a lot of
Bordentown interested in boating, whose economic old men; they needed young men to
position had improved because of jobs shovel the mud from downstairs.”
609-291-1980 in industry after the war. They had a “The clubhouse was originally built
• Competitive Pay Rate little more disposable income and like a barn, with post and beam con-
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could afford a club like this,” Targon-
struction; all you had to do was let it dry
• Flexible Hours In the School Plaza Shopping Center ski says. out,” Targonski says. And more recently,
if a flood is anticipated, members carry
Decoy carving, popular in Borden-
next to High School town through the ’50s and ’60s, also hap- everything upstairs, except for the big
• Benefi ts Available Gift Cards pened on Yapewi’s property. Targonski refrigerator, which they put up on a table
recalls club member Tony Bianco, who downstairs.
• Weekends Off Available died in 1966, but whose decoys, some Lange says that in the ’70s he quit
carved at Yapewi, still sell for $2,000 to coming to the club “because the
• Retirees Welcome $3,000. river was so filthy.” But the river has
In 1988, the side wing of the club come back and Targonski cheers this
Gluten Free burned down, and Targonski chaired accomplishment. “Boaters were the
• Immediate Opening Menu Available the rebuilding committee. The state original environmentalists,” he says.
Open Department of Environmental Protec- “Trash would come in, and we would
• CDL Training Available 7 Days tion gave them permission to rebuild as clean up the waterfront. We were
Like us on
long as they replicated the outside. Over always concerned with the quality of
the course of three years the members the water.”
• Non CDL Positions Available drew closer as they built together the In the club’s early days, Targonski
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new wing, completed in April 1992 at a says, “to afford to belong, you had to be
Eat-In Only • Holidays Excluded cost of $2,100. well off financially, even though the dues
Served Monday through ursday 3:30 pm to 6 pm Before the 295 bridge over Cross- were cheap by today’s standards.” But,
Positions Available for September, wicks Creek was built in the ’90s, many although Yapewi was founded by well-to-
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boaters used sailboats. But the bridge do merchants, “as the years went on, it is
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fit under the bridge. “At high tide, there
Targonski describes club members as
Choose From One of the Following:
Manicotti • Spaghetti w/Meatballs or Sausage is around a 30-foot clearance,” Targon- people who are highly skilled, have their
ski says, which meant that meant he had own businesses, and “work with their
Penne w/Garlic and Broccoli • Flounder Francaise • Chicken Parmigiana to be docked two hours before or after hands for a living.”
Linguini w/Clam Sauce • Rigatoni Siciliani • Ravioli • Stuff ed Shells high tide to be able to get under the “By no means are there members
GST Transport Corp. bridge. Now most boats are powerboats here who are wealthy; everybody here is
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pretty much working class. The reason
or pontoon boats.
8Bordentown Current | August 2017 e Future Floods have been a periodic problem, they can own a boat and I can own a boat
Transporting
1897 Route 38
Southampton, NJ 08088
609-267-3380