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Landon Ray |
Rachael
has chosen the name
for her beautiful new son born at Providence Centralia Hospital.
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| Birth Statistics |
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Weight: 8 pounds and 12 ounces |
| Length: 19 inches |
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Time: 1:35 am
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Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009 |
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Delivered by:
Elisha Mvundura, M.D. |
Origin of the name Landon... |
| English - "Open", "Grassy meadow". |
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August 30, 2009 - a day to remember |
| The Environment |
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The sun rose over Centralia at 6:29 am
and set at 7:54 pm
| | Centralia high: 76° F
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Centralia low: 54° F
| | The nation's weather extremes were 119° recorded at Death Valley, California and 27° at Embarrass, Minn.
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| | In the financial world |
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The Dow Jones closed at
9544.20 | |
Washington's Minimum Wage was $8.45 |
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Loaf of Bread:$ 1.89 | |
Gallon of Milk: $ 3.85 | |
First Class Stamp: $0.44 | |
Average New Home: $212,000.00 | |
New Car: $21,750.00 |
| | Populations: |
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Centralia: 13,600 | |
U.S. Population: 288,858,303 |
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| | Landon Ray shares
his birthday with these other interesting people
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1797 - Mary Shelley - English novelist and creator of the world's most famous monster, in her book, "Frankenstein." |
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1870 - Maria Montessori - Italian physician and educator. She founded the Montessori educational system based on the belief in children's creative potential, drive to learn, and right to be treated as individuals. |
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1893 - Huey P. Long - Flamboyant, populist governor of Louisiana and U.S. senator whose political machine nearly affected a near dictatorship in his state of Louisiana. |
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1918 - Ted Williams - Major league heavy hitter who achieved a .406 batting average in 1941 and a career total of 521 home runs, despite a five year career interruption as to fly military planes during World War II and Korea. |
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1682 - Quaker leader and religious freedom advocate, William Penn, set sail from England to the "New World" where he would establish the colony (and later state) of Pennsylvania. | |
1962 - To ensure open communication between the two superpowers during times of international stress, a "hot line" was installed between the White House in Washington, D.C., and the Kremlin in Moscow. | |
1983 - Lt. Colonel Guion Bluford blasted off aboard the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger becoming the first American of African ancestry to travel in space. |
| Happy Birthday
Landon Ray
from your friends at
Providence Centralia Hospital
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