RECORD TIME: The 50,000 people a year...
RECORD TIME: The 50,000 people a year who descend on the Orange County Recorder’s office to get birth certificates used to have to brave Civic Center traffic and parking during the week. But beginning Tuesday, a new computerized system lets anyone with the $12 fee get a birth certificate from any of the county’s branch libraries. . . . “It’s family crisis time when you find out that you can’t play in the all-stars because you don’t have a birth certificate,” says county Recorder Lee Branch.
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