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B3 Man is charged in deaths of two children hit by car "The teachers made me feel special and a part of the family. They gave me an opportunity to do something with my hands, which I could proudly show my parents." Eugene West, 23, a recent graduate of the YouthBuild program i. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH METRO MONDAY, JULY 29, 2002 Vehicle was reported stolen late last month i 77 I i parked van. The driver, Da-wayne Shockley, 26, of the 5300 block of Arlington Avenue, tried to run away but suffered a broken leg in the accident and was captured by police.

He was in satisfactory condition at a hospital on Sunday. The vehicle he had been driving, a 2001 Mitsubishi Montero Sport, had been stolen June 30 from Laclede's Landing. Two other men in the vehicle are expected to be charged with vehicle tampering, police said. Fifteen minutes before the fatal accident, police had spotted the stolen vehicle near Fairground Park and started to pursue it but quickly canceled the chase because it was deemed possibly unsafe in a residential area, police said. Mario lived in the 5400 block of North Euclid Avenue and was preparing for his sophomore year at Beaumont High School, said his stepmother, Denise Davis.

"Mario was a sweet child who loved little children," she said. The fatally injured baby lived with her mother in the 5400 block of Shreve Avenue. Reporter Bill Bryan: E-mail: Phone: 314-340-8950 11 jVit By Bill Bryan Of the Post-Dispatch a A St. Louis man was charged Sunday with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of a 7-month-old girl and a 16-year-old boy who were run down by a stolen vehicle, St Louis police said. The victims Jasciona Hill and Mario Woolfolk were fatally injured shortly after 9 p.m.

Friday as they were walking in the street, near the curb, along Rosalie Avenue, police said. Mario was holding the infant when struck by a speeding sport utility vehicle at Rosalie and North Euclid Avenue. The baby was the daughter of Mario's girlfriend, 15, who was walking and holding Mario's hand at the time. But she was closest to the curb and was not struck by the vehicle, police said. The section of Rosalie where the victims were killed has no sidewalk, police added.

After the teen and baby were struck, the SUV smashed into a Fire (aaAAiw)tait l.Mit.lii. JERRY NAUNHEIM JR.POST-DISPATCH Dareece Harris, 17, of St. Louis, takes a test last week for YouthBuild St. Louis Charter School, which is starting up this fall in the Soulard neighborhood. Students of the new school will receive a high school diploma and help in getting a job in the building trades.

mar it1 Arson is suspected in blaze at center graduate of the YouthBuild program, acquired. Expelled from high school two years ago for insubordination, West is proud he attended YouthBuild. "I was depressed when I was kicked out of school," he said. "I roamed the streets and frustrated my mother. I was totally out of control." He said a friend told him about the school, and he has never regretted joining.

"The teachers made me feel special and a part of the family," he said. "They gave me an opportunity to do something with my hands, which I could proudly show my parents." Career counselor Juanita Carr said the school would work with its graduates to secure a job or to continue their education. Zacchaeus Williams, 17, was applying for the charter school on a recent day. He had been considering studying music but was drawn by the YouthBuild school's perks a weekly educational stipend of $14, a work site training wage of $5.30 an hour and a possible $2,363 Ame-riCorps community service education award at the end of the program. He has decided to give it a try.

Reporter Sarah Namulondo: E-mail: Continued from Bl heat exhaustion. Both were 'treated at St. John's and re-, leased. The names of the injured were not available. The fire was put out by about now Lid eaiu chedv.

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On Sunday, many onlookers gazed at the charred remains of the 7-year-old center and aloud that there hadnt been more deaths. "Just looking oat it, I can't see how they got everybody out," an employee of the center said. Silvernail said: "This was a hell of a fire. The firefighters-did good work getting every-. body out." During the fire, tioned buses provided by Bi-State Development Agency were on hand to temporarily School New charter school gives dropouts a 2nd chance Continued from Bl The school was approved in March by the Missouri Board of Education and will be sponsored by the St.

Louis Public Schools. The school, at 1919 South Broadway in the Soulard area, will be an extension of the YouthBuild St. Louis program that has operated here since 1992. Unlike in the past, when the program has offered only a high school equivalency certificate, the new students will earn a high school diploma if they meet the standards. The St Louis school is one of two similar charter schools opening in the area this fall.

In East St. Louis, the Tomorrow's Builders Charter School will open by mid-September. Nationwide, the YouthBuild USA organization has helped dropouts and high school students at risk of dropping out in 42 states to earn their high school credentials and move on to construction careers. To qualify for the new St Louis program, students must be 17 to 19 years old, have no high school diploma and show proof of St Louis city residency. Recruitment is going on from noon to 3 p.m.

every Wednesday at 1924 South 12th Street, in Soulard. While at the center, students "appalled" with the county executive's leadership over the past year. Lee is calling for a "zero tolerance" policy on corruption. Lee said he decided to run against Westfall after fighting the county for several years over building code violations at his fixer-upper weekend home in North County. Despite citations for peeling and cracked paint and other problems, the value of the building jumped 75 percent last year, leading to a large tax increase.

Lee wants to give refunds to the thousands of homeowners whose assessments soared last year as a result of the now banned "drive-by" inspections. Westfall has turned down Lee's request for a debate. In the three-way GOP primary, Craig Borchelt, 36, of Chesterfield, is the pick of party leaders to take on Westfall in November. Borchelt, who was an Army officer for 10 years and has worked since 1997 as a business consul hold the residents who had been evacuated. Many were taken to a Metro-West fire district engine house on Manchester Road and later placed in one of several other nursing homes or as-sisted-living facilities, or with relatives.

Twenty-one residents were sent to the Marymount Manor Nursing Home in Eureka. "They're doing great," a nurse there said Sunday evening. "They came here with nothingno dentures, no clothing, no shoes and they're doing real well considering that they lost everything." Autumn View is a member of the Bethesda medical group, which operates several assisted-living facilities and nursing homes in the area. "If pretty devastating," said Bob Elko, the administrator of Autumn View for the past 2 12 years. "You work hard at a facility and do a good job.

Ifs disconcerting. If depressing." Reporter Bill Bryan: E-mail: Phone: 314-340-8950 Westfall, who won a third term in 1998 with nearly 61 percent of the vote, acknowledges some "bumps in the road." But Westfall, 58, said that most county voters believe he's done a good job and that he is optimistic that they want him to serve a fourth term as county executive. "My vision when I came in and my vision going forward is to make the quality of life in St Louis County as good as it can be," Westfall said. "And most people that live here would say this is a great place to raise a family." His to-do list includes expanding MetroLink; redeveloping the airport buyout land in Berkeley, Kinloch and Ferguson; revitalizing the old National Lead site in Lemay; and expanding county parks. Lee, who is Westfall's first hurdle in next month's Democratic primary, said he voted for West-fall in the past but had become "This was a hell of a fire.

The firefighters did good work getting everybody out." Jim Silvemail, chief of the Metro-West Fire Protection District () cr.3 4 It tny (i ra I 800-818-5272 8 seu St. Louis A 0y 0 FEET WO 40 SHOWN SI LOUIS CO. i) POST-DISPATCH watch a video detailing success stories of their predecessors and take a 20-minute math aptitude test. Charter schools are sometimes accused of robbing students from their neighborhood schools, but not in this case. The St.

Louis School Board agreed to sponsor the school, in part, because it is accepting only dropouts. "We are not stealing anyone. Actually we are bringing them back," said Joyce Sonn, director of YouthBuild St Louis. Sonn said the school will give students many of whom dropped out of high school because of bad grades a chance to prove themselves. These students face many problems, she said, but "we teach them good work habits, academic subjects, construction and leadership skills." Good leadership skills are what Eugene West, 23, a recent tant for Monsanto, has not previously run for office.

His campaign catchphrases include "accountability" and "integrity." "People say to me that St. Louis County is becoming like St. Louis city, that it's becoming an old-boy network," Borchelt said. They'll tell me it's time for a change. If I'm elected, I won't be in office for 12 years going on 16." Gregory Powers, 52, an insurance broker who lives near Man-chester, is stressing transportation issues and "controlled growth." Robert Crump, 48, a restaurant manager and a perennial candidate for elected office, is a strong advocate of term limits for all elected offices.

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censing at the airport, which led to guilty pleas from a Democratic councilman, a close aide to West-fall and another county worker. Then there was the county worker in the collector's office who was arrested last fall for embezzlement And last month at the 4-year-old county jail one of Westfall's proudest accomplishments a suspected serial killer committed suicide during an apparent lapse in jail security. 1 a ANDREW CUTRAfiOPOSl-UISPAFCH Everyday A virtual bazaar of the bizarre St. Louis summer scenes: check out the goings-on at the eclectic Venice Cafe in Benton Park. Business Applying for jobs in the 21st century Are electronic resumes sorted by race, gender and ethnicity since federal employment law requires such treatment with paper resumes? Experts explain how some local companies deal with eesumes.

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