Shea and Mathew have chosen the name Shawn Elton for their beautiful new boy born at Benefis Hospitals.

Shawn
Names Origin: Hebrew, English
Name's original meaning: God is gracious; From the shady grove.

Weight: 7 pounds, 7 ounces ounces
Length: 21 inches
Time: 9:54 p.m.
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Delivered by: JoanneRobbins, C.N.M.
Baby's doctor: Petra M. Messick-Laeven, MD

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 A Day To Remember

Sunrise and sunset:

• 7:23 a.m. a.m.
• 6:32 p.m. p.m.

Local weather:

• Great Falls high: 37° F
• Great Falls low: 24° F

The nation's weather extremes:

• High: 96° F at Edinburg and McAllen, Texas
• Low: 13° F at Hibbing, Minn.

• 9,885.80

Your dollar's worth

• Loaf of bread: $2.49
• Gallon of milk: $3.85
• Gallon of gasoline: $2.51
• First-class stamp: $0.44
• New car: $21,750.00
• Average new home: $155,000.00

Other interesting people born on this date:

• 1962 - Jerry Rice - San Francisco '49er wide receiver, record holder for most touchdowns, and arguably the best football player of all time.
• 1925 - Margaret Thatcher - "The Iron Lady" She was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain and the most powerful woman of the 20th Century.
• 1754 - Molly Pitcher - An American Revolutionary War hero, honored for bravery at the battle of Monmouth where she carried water to injured colonial fighters and replaced her exhausted husband manning a cannon.

Other notable events on this day in history:

• 1792 - The cornerstone for the first federal building in Washington, D.C., the White House, was laid. The executive mansion would be first inhabited eight years later by President John Adams.
• 1775 - The U.S. Navy was born as the second Continental Congress authorized a newly formed marine committee to acquire ships and control naval affairs.