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Parents who take their kids to Muskoka Family Focus and Children's Place daycare centres could be without a place to take them next week. A possible lockout is set for May 24^th after a consultant hired by management triggered a “no board” – that’s a report filed to the Ministry of Labour that means a strike or lockout could happen in 17 days. But the consultant then went on vacation leaving no chance for more negotiations according to the union. CUPE National Representative Chris Sax says the move isn't what you'd expect from a centre based on nurturing and caring.

Sax says talks are scheduled for May 23^rd. Without a fair settlement, over 45 workers could be locked out or on the picket lines beginning next Thursday. Repeated calls from this station to management of Muskoka Family Focus were not immediately returned.

If you have a child two-years and under, you may want to think about adding the flu shot to their list of scheduled vaccines. A recent study shows an astonishing low flu vaccine rate in toddlers. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit Manager of Immunization Laurie Stanford says she understands that parents do get vaccine fatigue. But parents should know the people who bring the flu into the home are mostly children.

The Toronto-based study found the rate of flu vaccines with toddlers never topped 10 percent between 2002 and 2009.

Drivers are still not getting the message. On Saturday, just after 7:00pm, police arrested a Huntsville driver on Hanes Road after they found that he had been drinking. Then on Mother's Day, police got a complaint of an erratic driver on Highway 11 in Huntsville. Police stopped the driver on Griffin Lodge Road just after 8:00pm. On Monday, police arrested a driver on Highway 60 after the driver was having trouble staying in the lane.

The military convoy that made its way through Muskoka and Parry Sound last week is making its way back to base. The mechanized brigade will return to CFB Petawawa today following Exercise 'Charging Dragoon' and Exercise 'Spartan Bear' in Meaford. The convoy is expected to cause minimal disruption.

Two local girls are now without their scooter and skateboard. Huntsville OPP says sometime between May 7^th and the 11^th thieves took the items from a car port. The victims later found the skateboard at the skateboard park completely ruined and the scooter in the cemetery with a missing wheel. Call police with any information.