Keira Peyton

The Klamath Basin is blessed with the arrival of a baby girl!

The Staff of Sky Lakes Medical Center add our congratulations and very best wishes to Elisie and Jerome on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Keira Peyton.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 12.6 ounces

Length: 20 1/4

Time: 5:54 p.m.

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Delivered by: Arielle Metz, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Nicola J. Cherry, M.D.

Origin of the name Keira . . .

Irish - "Little and dark"

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 80

Local low: 43

The nation's weather extremes were 118 recorded at nationHighLocation and 30 recorded at Eagle, Alaska

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 6:49 a.m. and set at 7:14 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,683.41

and the Minimum Wage was $8.40

A market basket of consumer prices looked like this . . .

Loaf of Bread: $2.49

Gallon of milk: $3.85

First class stamp: $0.44

Average new $201,000.00

New Car: $21,750.00

Populations . .

Klamath Basin Population: 71,000

U.S. Population: 306,372,703

Keira shares her birthday with these other interesting people . . .

1925 - B. B. King - American blues musician considered to be one of the foremost rhythm and blues guitarists of all time.

1877 - Jacob Schick - American inventor who developed and introduced the electric razor in 1931.

1875 - James Cash Penney - American entrepreneur and innovator who founded one of the world's largest merchandising organizations, the J.C. Penney Co.

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

1908 - William Crapo Durant founded the General Motors Company bringing the manufacture of Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Pontiac and Chevrolet under a single umbrella.

1620 - The 90 foot long sailing vessel, Mayflower, set sail from Plymouth, England, with its precious cargo of the first English pilgrims aboard.