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Hints to make hockey season happy Before hitting the ice this winter, young hockey players may need birth certificates as proof of age. Many children's organizations and sports clubs, such as the A $5 fee for each certificate must be paid upon application. "It's really best to apply for birth certificates shortly after your children are born,"' says Gage. "But Ontario Minor Hockey don't confuse League, insist on_ registration of the birth verifying the ages of withan application fora participants. As a certificate.' result, when fall and winter registrations begin, parents often end up scrambling to apply for their children's birth certificates. Requests for birth certificates flood into the Registrar General's office' every year when hockey teams and other groups start organizing for the season. An even larger deluge occurs each spring when school registrations take place. "To avoid last-minute panic, parents should apply for certificates as soon as possible," says Rosemarie Gage, Deputy Registrar General of Ontario for the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations. Application forms for birth certificates are available at town halls and post office , but they must be mailed directly to the Registrar General's Toronto office. If you can't find a form, simply write to "The Registrar General, Queen's Park, Parliament Buildings, --_ In 1984, the Registrar is a i j | farliament Buildings, In i984, the Registrar STE, MARIE: Always something of interest taking place at popular site 1Y5" and request a 319,605 bith certificates, : certificate. Be sure to yet only 133,612 babies list all pertinent were born that year. . information, including The Registrar's office | 1900's Ontario's system about the health effects the names of both also records deaths, of collecting vital of factory life, poor parents, the child's marriages, legal name Statistics was born sanitation in cities and name, the place and date of birth and the reason the certificate is required, By law, all births in Ontario must' be registered within 30 days of the event. The child's parents and the hospital involved must forward registration information on the birth to the local municipal clerk. The two reports are crosschecked, then forwarded to Gage's office. Failure to register can result in a $100 fine. The penalty for reporting false information is $500 but fines for both offences are under review. A certificate is a legal document confirming facts about the birth. "A birth certificate is not required by law, but it is usually the basic document used to establish one's identity,' says Gage. "Tt can be difficult to get along without one. You might only make it as far as the child's first school year, although we do get requests for certificates for people of all ages."' changes, adoptions, divorces and still births. Developed during the late 1800s and early largely out of concern for public health in a period of rapid urbanization. Fears the spread of contaigous disease underscored the need for a central registration agency. * es TINNEY'S SEPTIC SERVICE AND CONSTRUCTION Septic Tanks Midland Electronics COMPLETE REPAIR AND INSTALLATION SERVICE @CB Radios eCar stereos eSmall appliances Roofing Service Ken Laycock and Sons Homes, cottages new and older . All work guaranteed Free Estimates Elmvale - 322-2149 eHome Stereo eTelevision eAntenna Systems Sand, Fill, Gravel _ Pumped and (Crushed or Pit-Run) Systems !nstalled Topsail Excavating, Bulidozing, Grading BRUCE TINNEY Bus. 526-7269 TF THERMAL WINDOW SEAL Div. of Bert Russell Limited FULLY QUALIFIED TECHNICIANS WITH OVER 18 YEARS EXPERIENCE 525B Bay St., Midland 526-5951 WILLETT. MIKE TINNEY Res. 526-3069 TF TITF MAGIC CARPET CLEANING *49.00 Revolutionary new inside storm WINDOWS & ENTRANCE SYSTEMS Any # Foy sad windows-easily installed on any 4 Al Ze esterfie existing windows. oe 555 BAY ST. Livingroam, & Chair 10 year written warranty = MIDLAND, ONTARIO Dining Room ieee Port McNicol Evenings ee 534-3081 9322073 [ Fall 526-9197 534- Freeestimat = 3 1 * si 526-751 4 on on aod oe All work guaranteed & insured