UPDATED: Brockovich to Host Fridley Town Hall Cancer Meeting in May: Reports

Updated below. plans to visit Fridley, announced last Friday, firmed up a bit Tuesday, according to a flurry of media reports. 

The famed consumer advocate to from a got her staff's attention. 

Brockovich's environmental investigator Bob Bowcock and that Brockovich herself would not likely be part of her team's initial visit. 

Now Brockovich plans to hear Fridley residents' concerns about local cancer rates at a town-hall style meeting that will likely be held in May, according to reports aired on KSTP-TV and published at the Star Tribune website Tuesday night. 

WCCO-TV also reported Tuesday night on the efforts of the . 

A Minnesota Department of Health investigation found that that would be expected over the last decade. Earlier Tuesday a department investigator said he would as well. 

Update (12:15 p.m. Wednesday): The St. Paul Pioneer Press posted an online report Wednesday morning, with an emphasis on questions about the validity of the concept of cancer clusters and other explanations beyond environmental factors for a higher incidence of cancer.

Also, the Star Tribune's printed article (see image above) appeared on the front page of Wednesday's edition.

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