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Breakfast is served THE Frankston Churches Community Breakfast group has begun doling out breakfast meals to the needy again. The welfare organisation’s has moved from St Paul’s Church hall to City Life’s Clyde St Mall cafe and began serving breakfast meals again last week after an enforced break. Pastor Luke van der Wielen said the group was forced to move venues after an unfortunate violent incident involving a cafe visitor earlier this year. “We’ve put some security measures in place and that’s working well,” he said. “Serving breakfasts only just started again this week … it’s early days yet. Word will generally get around in a week or two.” Volunteers dish up breakfast to the disadvantaged on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 7am-8.15am. Dinners and lunches are also served to the needy on some days. See citylife.net.au or call 9770 0660 for details. Service with a smile: Volunteer Heather gets ready to dish up lunch at the City Life cafe in Frankston’s Clyde St Mall. Picture: Gary Sissons

Bullying confirmed Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au THERE have been five cases of proven bullying at Frankston Council in the past two years. Information obtained by The Times under freedom of information laws reveal there were 36 matters in two years in which the term “bullying” was used. An FOI search by council found 54 internal documents from 1 January

2013 until 11 February 2015 contained the word “bullying”. Council CEO Dennis Hovenden has confirmed five of the complaints were “either fully or partially substantiated”. Alleged bullying at Frankston Council was thrust into the public spotlight when councillors clashed at January’s public council meeting over “intimidating behaviour” between councillors (‘Councillors ‘feel bullied’’, The Times 26/1/15). It then emerged that Cr Brian Cunial

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which exist in the FOI Act for those people”. “I have made my decision on the basis that it protects both the complainants and respondents in each of these matters,” the officer stated in a letter to The Times. Council said it is unable to confirm whether the WorkCover probe in 2013 is one of the five substantiated cases of bullying for this reason. Continued Page 6

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