Week after St. Paul ballpark tragedy, work resumes

September 19, 2013 at 1:55AM
On Sept. 18, an excavator loaded pieces of the old building into a truck at the demolition site where the new St. Paul Saints ballpark will be in St Paul.
A worker walked passed as an excavator loaded pieces of the old building into a truck at the demolition site where the new St. Paul Saints blalpark will be in St Paul Wednesday. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Work resumed Wednesday at the site of the new St. Paul Saints baseball park downtown, where a demolition worker was killed last week while helping raze an old factory. A private memorial service was held Tuesday for Johnny Valek, 61, of Plymouth, who died when a concrete portion of the building crashed on his backhoe. Investigators said it could take up to six months to reveal the circumstances of Valek's death.

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