Amy and Jeremiah have chosen the name Brayden James for their beautiful new boy born at Benefis Hospitals.

Brayden
Names Origin: English
Name's original meaning: "Broad valley"

Weight: 6 pounds, 5 ounces ounces
Length: 19 inches
Time: 6 00 a.m.
Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Delivered by: Daren J. Braget, M.D.
Baby's doctor: Nancy J. Maynard, MD

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 A Day To Remember

Sunrise and sunset:

• 7:32 a.m. a.m.
• 6:19 p.m. p.m.

Local weather:

• Great Falls high: 55° F
• Great Falls low: 28° F

The nation's weather extremes:

• High: 103° F at Laredo, Texas
• Low: 8° F at Northway, Alaska

• 10,041.48

Your dollar's worth

• Loaf of bread: $2.49
• Gallon of milk: $3.85
• Gallon of gasoline: $2.52
• First-class stamp: $0.44
• New car: $21,750.00
• Average new home: $155,000.00

Other interesting people born on this date:

• 1833 - Alfred Nobel -Swedish chemist and entrepreneur who invented dynamite and other, explosives and who used some of the fortune they brought him to found the Nobel Prizes.
• 1772 - Samuel Coleridge - English poet most remembered for his classic tale, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
• 1736 - William Shippen, Jr. - First physician to offer courses in anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics in the United States and to open a maternity hospital in America.

Other notable events on this day in history:

• 1879 - Thomas Edison successfully tested an incandescent electric light following 13 months of research and thousands of experiments.
• 1805 - In one of the greatest sea battles of all time, The Battle of Trafalgar, the British fleet, under Admiral Horatio Nelson, defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets.
• 1797 - One of the U.S. Navy's first warships, the Frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston. Known as "Old Ironsides", she is the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy.