Brockovich Town Hall Meeting Moves to 700-seat Fridley High Auditorium

will get to stretch out her legs when she about their cancer concerns on June 27.

The meeting is being moved from the to the larger, 700-seat Fridley High School auditorium, Bob Bowcock, Brockovich’s environmental investigator, wrote on the discussion board this morning.

“They wanted something that was a little larger than the community center,” said Jael McLemore, the district’s communications coordinator. “The auditorium is the largest space we have in our school district.”

Stephen Keeler, the district’s facilities coordinator, said he sent Brockovich’s organization a new contract at a base price of $490 to rent the space for the 6:30 p.m. meeting.

Community theater rehearsals, which were previously scheduled in the auditorium, will be relocated.

During her visit, Brockovich will tour the city’s Superfund sites before the two-hour evening town hall meeting, in which she will listen to residents’ concerns about Fridley’s cancer cases and present her interpretation of historical and anecdotal data collected in the last couple months from citizens and regulatory agencies, Bowcock said.

In March 2012, the Minnesota Department of Health.

Upon further study, the department later and said the still higher-than-average number of cancer cases in Fridley was nothing more than a statistical anomaly, largely attributable to the .

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