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NOTABLE The Jewish Rehabilitation Center for the Aged of the North Shore in Swampscott is celebrating 50 years of service and mil welcome Lesley Staid, CBS Nem correspondent, as a speaker next weekend. Stmy, Pageli. INSIDE Business Calendar Home Garden Letters Opinion People Places The Political Trail Sports IS ..4 2 14 -v 3j .17 ES JUNE 18, 1995 Residency debate splits local officials -1 rii 1 1 ByJohnLaidler SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE HELSEA- City Councilor iMike Mekonnen says "i lb, Chelsea's neighborhoods would be cleaner, safer .7. and more liveable if those tered to make a residency requirement practical. Of the 37 North Weekly cities and towns, nine currently have rules requiring some employees other than elected officials to live in the community, a Globe survey found last week.

Two of the communities Lynn and Winthrop have residency ordinances that cover most of their work forces outside of schoolteachers, -t Maiden and Revere, meanwhile, have residency rules that cover many of their employees outside of police, fire and schoolteachers. Haverhill has a requirement covering police and firefighters; Salem has one covering police; and Chelsea has one covering firefighters. The town managers in Amesbury and Danvers must be residents of those towns. And several communitiesT while they have no formal residency rules, have required certain officials to live within the community as part of their contracts. But even where the residency rules exist, the survey found little evidence that they are being strictly enforced.

Nor is there evidence that cities and towns are adhering closely to state law requiring all fire and police employees to live within designated distances of the communities where they work. Still, in the wake of the Boston RESIDENCY, Page 0 I I Y- who work for the city were required to reside in it. "If someone who works for the park department sees a pothole or a pile of litter around the corner from their house, you can be pretty sure they don't want to hit that pothole 20 times, or see that litter," he said. But a recent proposal by Mekonnen to force all future city employees to live in Chelsea doesn't sit well with Police Chief Edward Flynn. "Living in a city should be an individual choice," he said.

"It's a fundamental American concept. If you've done your work for your employer, what you do on your own time is your own business." As controversy continues over the enforcement of the city of Boston's residency ordinance for municipal workers, the issue of whether a community has the right to dictate where its employees live has echoed across some north of Boston cities and towns. Historically, the issue has not assumed great urgency in this region, most of whose communities, officials say, are too small and tightly clus GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JIM WILSON PROUD FOURFATHER It 's been year since David Brooks center) became the father of quadruplets Raymond, Zachary, Jasmine and Adam a year marked by unimagined highs and unimaginable lows for the entire family. Anne Driscoll column, Page 2. Blue Line stations set to reopen after $467m upgrade j.

I 4 mt3h Jill 1 rvlji By Andrew Blake GLOBE STAFF FVFRF The vpnrlnnir (T) wait by thousands of com- muters ior improved MBTA Blue Line train service and rebuilt sta Harbor into downtown Boston, terminating at Bowdoin Station. When the line opened in 1900 as a rail link from Maverick Station in East Boston to Court Street in downtown Boston, it ran through the nation's first underwater rapid transit tunnel. "The four new or renovated stations have better lighting, new benches, police call boxes and open access for the handicapped," said spokeswoman Amy MacNeil. "Beachmont Station, which was demolished and rebuilt at a cost of $27 million, still needs some finish work but will be open. Regular rush hour schedules will start on Monday, June 26, and parking lots at all of those stations will be open as usual," she said.

The reopening of the four sta-MBTA, Page 5 tions is scheduled to end Saturday afternoon when the reopens Wonderland, Revere Beach and Beach-mont stations here and the Suffolk Downs Station in East Boston. The $467 million improvement project began last June 25, forcing passengers who normally used those stations to be bused to and from the Orient Heights Station in East Boston in order to take trains to and from downtown Boston. The 6-mile long Blue Line runs from Wonderland Station in Revere, through East Boston, under Boston I. I Area hospitals evaluate cancer care regimens GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JIM WllSON Runners from Gil's Athletic Club limber up with a practice run on the track of Masconomet Regional High School in Topsfleld. Jim (right) is the founder of the 10-year-old club.

Running clubs set a course for futii By Coco McCabe SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE By Beth Daley GLOBE STAFF 15,000 expected next Sunday at fifth annual North Shore Medical Center's walk-athon in Salem. Page 8. second patient who has not been identified. The Dana-Farber Institute events have prompted hospitals in the region to look with a critical eye at their own practices and in some cases to add new checks to their drug delivery systems. Many also point out that they are community hospitals using standardized regimens of anti-cancer drugs and therefore not as likely CARE, Page 9 ollowing two recent I cases of chemotherapy jS overdoses at the the I Dana Farber Cancer In-stitute in Boston, those involved in administering that form of cancer treatment see it being delivered today with extra vigilance in hospitals around the North Weekly region.

Those overdoses occurred in November, leading to the death of Boston Globe health columnist Betsy A. Lehman and to the life-threateniitg heart damage of a No, members of North Weekly running clubs. "We're everywhere," says Louise Rossetti, 73, of Saugus, who has been running more than 20 years. "Early in the morning, late at night. These runners are from every stage of life, engineers to carpenters and every age.

You see them all the time," she says. Indeed you do. And many of the runners seen on Salisbury's stretches of sand south to Melrose's suburban streets are also found at least once a week with a running club practicing sprints, long distance and the occasional lifting of "beer mugs. And this interest in running clubs is not. only for runners interested in training but as a way to socialize, too.

"Running clubs are there to train, to get better but also to have fun," says Jim Gilford, of Gil's Athletic Club, founded in the basement of3iTs Grocery in Topsfield in 1985. Members of Gil's Athletic Club hold dear. A group of nine wore white Pxfoijd shirts with the sleeves cut off and red fees ta Virginia race in October. They have VuoIhe Commonwealth Brewery in Boston for beef--from Topsfield. A keg of beer is always" oh tap in RUNjPagfo uring foggy mornings in Haverhill they come out of the mist with strange flash-i I ling lights attached to fast-moving ap-ypendages.

A synchronized pack of five appear often and without warning on hazy hot afternoons atop a Linebrook Road hill in Ipswich. Pairs of them thunder within inches of Brian Knoften when he walks on narrow dirt paths in the Middlesex Fells Reservation. tf Creatures from the unknown?.