Ava Grace

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 Holly and Will on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Ava Grace.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 12 ounces

Length: 21 1/2

Time: 1:39 a.m.

Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009

Delivered by: Cory T Johnson, MD

Baby's Doctor: Tracy Graham, M.D.

Origin of the name Ava . . .

Latin - "Like a bird"

Thursday, September 17, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 77

Local low: 45

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 6:50 a.m. and set at 7:13 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,791.71

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: 306,376,691

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

1930 - Edgar Mitchell - American astronaut, member of the Apollo 14 crew and one of just a handful of people to set foot on the moon.

1923 - Hank Williams, Sr. - Legendary singer-songwriter whose songs "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", "Honky Tonkin'" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" are American country music classics.

1900 - John Willard Marriott - American businessman who founded and built one of the country's most prominent hotel chains, which bears his name.

1854 - David Dunbar Buick - Automotive pioneer who founded the Buick Manufacturing Company in 1902 and whose innovations included the valve-in-head engine and the windshield

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

1911 - Pilot Calbraith Perry Rodgers flew his biplane out of Sheepshead Bay, New York, on what would become the first successful transcontinental airplane flight. Actual flight time for the 3,400 mile journey was just over 82 hours, but the trip took 49 days.

1787 - A nation unlike any other was born as the Constitution of the United States of America was signed this day by delegates from twelve states at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.