19th August 2014

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Making a Grand staged entrance WHILE other cultures - particularly Italian and French - are inclined to promenade in the street, Australia has its hotels, trendy bars and nightclubs. A out indoors can be all about posturing, dressing up and impressing whoever may be watching. The stage show I Knew These People coming to The Grand, Mornington, takes this ritual parade to another level. Contemporary dance company the RAWcollective’s I Knew These People

WHAT’S ON AT NEPTOURS MATTHEW BOURNE’S *CROWN CASINO – MONTHLY* Casino’s bus program with a SWAN LAKE great BUFFET lunch (all) $35. Wed 22 Oct (matinee) Only persons over the age of (a) $120 (p/s) $115 18 permitted. STITCHES & CRAFT SHOW LAST THURSDAY EACH CaulďŹ eld Racecourse Thu 23 MONTH Oct All $55 QUEEN VICTORIA MARKET Tue 14 Oct - all $30. HEALESVILLE SANCTUARY Shop for all the bargains we Tue 11 Nov do not have down here. We even supply a couple of Eskys Adults $70 (p/s) $60 (ch) $50 for some of your perishables. ITALIAN MASTERS (NGV) Tue 26 Aug (a) $60 (p/s) $55 LES MISERABLES Wed 3 Sept (matinee) (a) $105 (p/s) $95

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is billed as “an exciting and colourful tapas of evocative live performance�. It is a work that “promises to surprise, delight and intrigue, as a medley of separate, but interconnected, stories draws the audience in and takes them on a journey into the quirks of the human mind�. Audience members can sit back and relax, sip on a wine, and let the show unravel around them in the lounge of The Grand ... or mingle and mince their

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way to the best vantage points. Comedic performer Kelly Nash has quite a following on the Mornington Peninsula and a family connection to The Grand through her grandfather who worked there at the bottle shop more than 60 years ago. Now, Nash will be titillating audiences alongside five other peninsula performers as part of Frankston’s Anywhere Theatre Festival from 7.30pm Monday 1 September to Wednesday 3 September.

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Shire CEO Michael Kennedy will apply to get his job back after councillors decided Monday last week in a shock decision to advertise his position rather than to reappoint him. In an email to staff the day after the councillors’ decision, Dr Kennedy wrote: “I firmly believe that I am the very best person for the role of shire CEO.� Councillors made their decision after what is believed to have been a long and at times bitter meeting. Sources say that only three of the 10 councillors at the meeting voted to reappoint Dr Kennedy for another term. He has been CEO for 15 years. The ‘special’ Special Purposes Committee Meeting to discuss his future began at 5pm and adjourned just before 7pm for the scheduled council meeting. In question time at that meeting the mayor Cr Antonella Celi said she had received two questions related to “a confidential matter under council discussion. I just wish to advise that a formal statement will shortly [be] released in regard to these questions,� she told the meeting. At least one of the questions sought information on the outcome of councillors’ discussions about the CEO’s

future. Councillors reconvened to continue these discussions after the brief council meeting. The shire media release about the councillors’ decision on the CEO was emailed at 10.21am the next day. It was followed 17 minutes later by Dr Kennedy’s email to staff, addressed to “Team-mates�, of his intention to run for the job, for which he currently earns some $350,000 annually. Dr – then Mr – Kennedy was hired as CEO of Mornington Peninsula Shire in 1999. He was reappointed in 2004, 2008 and 2012, with controversy surrounding the 2004 and 2008 reappointments. Concern was also expressed about the 2012 reappointment, many in the community feeling the market should be tested to see what calibre of applicant might be attracted to the job, which pays more than most state premiers get. The 2008 concern culminated in an Ombudsman’s inquiry in 2009, sparked by community complaints about the reappointment process, especially that of 2004. Then Victorian Ombudsman George Brouwer found the reappointment was lawful. But he criticised the shire’s handling of requests made under freedom of information law. Continued Page 10

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