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Lucia


Cecilia and Pedro have chosen the name Lucia for their beautiful new girl born at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
Birth Statistics
Weight: 6 pounds and 15 ounces
Length: 18 1/2 inches
Time: 10:28 p.m.
Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009

Delivered by: Tamara A. Stenshoel, M.D.
Baby's Doctor: Catherine B. Kordesch, M.D.
Origin of the name Lucia
Latin - "Bringer of light"

Saturday, July 18, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . .

The Weather:

The sun rose over Lane County at 5:46 a.m. and set at 8:50 p.m.
Local high: 89
Local low: 53
The nation's weather extremes were 128 at Death Valley, California and 36 at Barrow and Kuparuk, Alaska

In the financial world

The Dow Jones closed at 8,743.94
Minimum Wage was $8.40

and the prices of some big and little ticket items were

Loaf of bread: $2.49
Gallon of milk: $3.85
Average New Home: $239,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $2.73
First class stamp: $0.44

Populations:

Eugene/Springfield 185,160
U.S. Population: 306,133,423

In the world of entertainment this week

The top grossing movie was: "Bruno"

Lucia shares her birthday with these other interesting people

1913 - Red Skelton - Emmy Award-winning comedian, American patriot and all-around good-guy who brought to life a group of entertaining characters on "The Red Skelton Show."
1921 - John Glenn Jr. - One of America's first seven astronauts, the third to enter space and first to orbit the earth in space. Later he became a U.S. Senator from Ohio.

There have been some other notable events on this day in history

1914 - A predecessor to the Army Air Corps and Air Force was created as an aviation section within the signal corps. The division consisted of 60 officers, 260 enlisted men and 6 airplanes.
1976 - Fourteen year old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci surprised and delighted audiences world-wide as she gave a performance on the uneven parallel bars that scored the first ever perfect 10 in this Olympic event.

Happy Birthday Lucia
 from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center