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N03 Certain Deaths 5 Sports 6 Calendar 7 Classified 8,10 The Boston Globe Thursday, February 5, 2004 (Suds On the road and pining for home More local families relying on friends, relatives for shelter "5 her son, Jorssa Joseph, have had no fixed address. In September, they moved into a three-bedroom apartment with another family in Everett, a friend of a friend and her two children. There is just one bathroom for the five of them. Privacy is a luxury, Charles has learned, and one she cannot afford. Joseph and Charles share a room.

He sleeps in the bed; she sleeps on an air mattress on the floor. His Harry Potter collection sits on a shelf in their room, next to herschoolbooks. Soon, their tattered texts will have to be packed into cardboard boxes and carted off. Where to? Charles doesn't know. "I'm trying not to think about it," Charles said of the upcoming move, their second in four months.

"It's too much. With my job and school, ifs hard to find time to look for a new apartment And I can't imagine where I'll find one I can afford." Charles's plight is a familiar one. Over the past decade, as real estate prices have soared, the failure to meet the demand for affordable housing has created a three-class system of "haves," "have nots and "hidden homeless," according to a study released last week by the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute. "Winners and Losers in the Massachusetts Housing Market," an analysis of 2000 US Census data, found that the "haves" bought their homes in the early to mid-1990s, before housing prices ballooned, and have since benefited from rising prices and low interest rates. HOUSING, Page 9 I By Brenda J.

Buote GLOBE STAFF Islande Charles, 43, is a full-time college student who works part time as a nurse's assistant She has a quick wit and ambition to spare. But determination and a sense of humor won't pay the bills. Charles and her 12-year-old son are among the state's "hidden homeless," a growing number of people who live with relatives or friends because they can't afford a place of their own. For the last six months, Charles and GLOBE PHOTOJOSH REYNOLDS Tania Norori and Ruben Bonilla live with their daughters, Paloma (right) and Paola, at a state-subsidized apartment in Revere. -Trt- IHIMtHllltHtllMMIHIMIIMIIIimHUIHinillMnnMMIIMHMHHHIHHMIHMmMHIMIimnmiimilHimiMIIH 'wf'TO rr iririrtr i ir in AVERH ILL mm mil r-rrr i i Iff 1 llii i nil i i i i i i II i -r ei i sa i if hi en nrccrl -s-f I TTi Steam builds for silencing of idle trains 9 i I' tarns i it- if i -Jit bi us fst 'J i I 1 I i i' I I (I I Ij I I I I I I EBBS lr I li If I y- 111,1111 1 1 1L.

Kb. B3 MS ml If fcr Action sought on longtime noise GLOBE SfAfF PHOTOMARK WILSON By Meredith Goldstein GLOBE STAFF The sound in question isn't just a humming. It's a rumbling, a vibrating force powerful enough to cause cracks in Mary Zappala's walls and ceiling. Bert Lacerte, Zappala's neighbor in Haverhill, describes it as the sound of a running motorcycle right next to your car. "Our homes have become a prison," Lacerte said.

"We have to close them up as tight as possible." For more than 15 years, residents in the Bradford section of Haverhill who live close to the commuter rail stop at the intersection of Railroad and Laurel avenues have coped with the sound of idling trains. The trains start idling at about 4:30 a.m. to warm up for the morning commute. They idle at night, usually until midnight or later, to cool down after the last drop-off. During the extreme heat of the summer and the deep chill of the winter, the trains run all night, sometimes all weekend, so the MBTA can keep the engines at the right temperature.

When the trains are at their least intrusive, Zappala says she gets about four hours of good sleep a night. At times, she drives to her sister's house to have a few hours of rest without interruption. "When are we supposed to sleep?" she said. "When are we supposed to rest?" Last week, Zappala met with Haverhill Mayor James J. Fioren-tini, local legislators, and representatives of the MBTA and the state Department of Environmental Protection to talk about the idling trains.

The meeting was set up by state Representative Barbara LTtalien, who noticed a flier created by Lacerte that told Bradford area residents whom to call to complain about the noise. For LTtalien, the train noise is a new issue. But for Bradford residents and officials at the local and state level, it's an old matter. Zappala and her neighbors have met with city and state leaders for years with no success in better regulating the idling of trains or moving the layover station, where TRAINS, Page 4 Bobby Hanson, a former Boston University hockey player, is in the new movie "Miracle." He plays Dave Silk, another former Terrier player. With him are his parents, Diane and Bob, at their home in Peabody.

He's smooth, as Silk Peabody Bobby Hanson scores role in Disney movie Nk Aft -V-" 2002. After a few rounds of auditions, including some on-ice displays, Hanson got the good news. "The director, Gavin O'Connor, called me up and said, 'Congratulations, you have the part of Dave which is really cool because I knew him playing at BU, said Hanson, after watching a special screening of the movie at Showcase Cinemas in Revere two weeks ago. "Dave is a great guy and I was happy to portray him in the movie." Portraying Silk was especially exciting for Hanson because he also was a BU hockey player. The one-time Tabor Academy star played for the Terriers from 1996 to 2000.

He was a member of four Beanpot title teams and finished his HANSON, Page 6 By Christopher L. Gasper GLOBE STAFF Former Dan vers High hockey player Patrick O'Brien Demsey has a starring role as Winthrop's Mike Eruzione in the new movie "Miracle," Disney's cinematic ode to the 1980 US Olympic hockey team. But Demsey and Eruzione are not the film's only local connection. Peabody native Bobby Hanson was tapped for tie role of another Boston University great, Dave Silk. Hanson, who had no prior acting experience, beat out roughly 4,000 other hockey hopefuls from across North America for the part.

The movie opens tomorrow. The 26-year-old Hanson went out for the part on a whim, deciding to join some friends for an open casting call held in Boston in the fall of 4 GLOBE STAFF PHOTOESSDRAS SUAREZ I960 AP FILE PHOTO Haverhill neighbors Mary Zappala (left), Bert Lacerte, and Judy Giannone are angry about noise from idling locomotives at an MBTA layover stop near their homes. The US hockey team celebrates after the 4-3 victory against the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympics. NEW HAMPSHIRE Alan Lupo NOW PLAYING Towns offered help in directing growth Victims on losing end in fight against crime By Clare Kittredge GLOBE CORRESPONDENT Each time it rains, pollutants can wash off impervious surfaces such as asphalt and wind up in the water that some New Hampshire Seacoast residents drink, according to Steve Miller, coastal training program coordinator for the Great Bay Estuarine Research Reserve. "So if you're the town of Exeter, say, and you get a lot of drinking water from the Exeter River, every time it rains you might get a pulse of pollution into your drinking water," said Miller, who also is a Portsmouth conservation commissioner.

Protecting drinking water is one of biggest issues facing fast- growing New Hampshire communities, according to a top 10 list compiled by the University of New Hampshire Center for Integrative Regional Problem Solving. The year-old UNH center is devoted to helping communities find ecologically based solutions to quality-of-life and land-use challenges. One goal is to help towns in the coastal watersheds of New Hampshire, southern Maine, and Massachusetts focus on smart growth and minimize the adverse effects of sprawl. To this end, the center recently issued its top 10 list of issues, developed in collaboration with UNH Cooperative Extension. They are: GROWTH, Pag 4 old Jacqueline Maxwell, was slain March 2 of that year.

The next day, a newspaper headline figuratively screamed, "1040 Sex Fiends Free in Bay State; Offenders Caught, Sentenced, Released, Caught Again, Penal Records Show." In 2004, the headlines are less lurid, but the message, more than a half century after the Maiden tragedy, is too hauntingly familiar: "Lifetime parole sought in sex crimes. Probation seen as more lenient" Later in March 1947, Time magazine weighed in with its findings on the Maiden case. According to state regulations, the parole committee at the training LUPO, Page 9 The devastated parents of a Maiden girl killed by a sex offender bared their emotions to the governor of Massa- chusetts. "She was killed," the couple wrote, "by a young man who had a long criminal record, including two sex offenses. He had just been let out of a reform school by people who should have known and cared enough to keep him shut away from girls.

If he had not been let out to kill, our daughter would have been with us today." The intended recipient of the letter was not Mitt Romney, but, rather, Robert Bradford, the governor in 1947. The victim, 11-year- ,4 GLOBE STAFF PHOTOMARK WILSON The IOKA Theatre will remain a staple in downtown Exeter, N.H., thanks to a new owner, who has remained anonymous since buying it last month. The Rockingham County Registry of Deeds shows a sale of the Water Street movie theater to Immer Besser LLC, a company on Windmere Lane in Exeter. The realtor who sold it said a nightclub also is planned at the site..