Utah County dateline briefs

Utah County

The fee for obtaining vital records will be increased statewide beginning July 1.

Birth certificates will increase from $12 to $15 and death certificates will increase from $9 to $13. Additional copies of birth and death certificates will now be $8 each when issued at the same time.

Due to state law and confidentiality, a request for copies of birth and death certificates will only be honored for the individual, the individual's parents, spouse, child, sibling, grandparent or grandchild.

For more information, contact the Utah County Health Department Office of Vital Records at 370-8700.

Lehi

The Rippy Literacy Center has hired two linguistic specialists, David Tuttle and Norman Wood, to oversee its English as a Second Language Program.

Tuttle and Norman will utilize the latest teaching techniques to help Spanish speakers learn English. English-speakers are also invited to learn Spanish under the specialists' instruction.

Named after founder Hester Rippy, the center is a nonprofit organization run by Lehi city, which pays the staff.

For more information or to sign up as a tutor, contact the center at 407-1025.

BYU

The Brigham Young University Child and Family Studies Laboratory is now accepting applications for the preschool, pre-kindergarten and post-kindergarten sections of its 2003 summer school program.

The summer school session begins June 23 and concludes Aug. 7. Tuition for the seven-week summer session is $250. Applications are available in room M128 of the B77 Service Building (the former UVSC building on Canyon Road west of Helaman Halls) or by calling 801-378-3219.

Any child who turns 4 by Sept. 1 is eligible for the preschool program. Children who will be entering kindergarten in September 2003 are eligible for the pre-kindergarten program and those who will be entering first grade are eligible for the post-kindergarten program.

For more information, contact Anne H. Ure, preschool administrator, at 801-378-3626.

Utah County

A request to put a residential treatment center for teenage males in a home in the unincorporated area near Payson will come before the Utah County Board of Adjustments today beginning at 5:15 p.m.