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LaToya has chosen the names
Elijah Lynn and Kessiah Cole for their beautiful twins born Friday, November 13, 2009 at
Sacred Heart Medical Center.
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Elijah Lynn
born
at 11:46 a.m.
on Friday, November 13, 2009
measuring: 18 1/4 inches
and weighing 5 pounds, 12 ounces
- Origin of the name Elijah
- Hebrew - "The Lord is my God"
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Kessiah Cole
born
at 11 38 a.m.
on Friday, November 13, 2009
measuring: 18 1/4 inches
and weighing 6 pounds, 0 ounces
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Friday, November 13, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . .
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The Weather:
 The sun rose over Lane County at 7:06 a.m.
and set at 4:48 p.m.
- Local high: 50
- Local low: 33
- The nation's weather extremes were 88 at Kona Airport, Hawaii, and Laredo, Texas and -30 at Arctic Village, Alaska
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In the financial world
- The Dow Jones closed at 10,197.47
- Minimum Wage was $8.40
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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: $2.79
- First class stamp: $0.44
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Populations:
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Eugene/Springfield 185,160
- U.S. Population: 306,604,007
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Elijah Lynn shares his birthday with these other interesting people
- 1718 - John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich - British first lord of the Admiralty during the American Revolution and person for whom both the Sandwich Islands and the sandwich are named.
1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish author of fiction and travel books, best known for his great adventures "Treasure Island", "Kidnapped", and the "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
1856 - Louis Brandeis - American lawyer who broke race and religious barriers by becoming the first Jewish U.S. Supreme Court Justice in 1916.
- There have been some other notable events on this day in history
- 1789 - Ben Franklin noted in a letter to a friend what has become one of the world's most often quoted phrases, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes."
1940 - The strange and wonderful Walt Disney full-length animated movie "Fantasia" premiered in New York.
1971 - Man pushed a little farther into space this day with the launch of Mariner 9. It was the first to orbit and map Mars and study its thin atmosphere.
Happy Birthday
Elijah
from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center
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