Jonathan D

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

The Staff of Sky Lakes Medical Center add our congratulations and very best wishes to Joni and Jeffrey on the birth of their beautiful new son Jonathan D.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 13 ounces

Length: 21

Time: 4:10 p.m.

Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009

Delivered by: Cory T Johnson, MD

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

Origin of the name Jonathan . . .

Hebrew, English - "God has been gracious"

Saturday, September 19, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 78

Local low: 47

The nation's weather extremes were recorded at nationHighLocation and recorded at

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 6:52 a.m. and set at 7:09 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,820.20

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: 306,384,667

Jonathan shares his birthday with these other interesting people . . .

1936 - Al Oerter - Amazing American athlete who won Gold Medals in four consecutive Olympic games for the discus throw - those in 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968.

1851 - Baron Leverhulme - British entrepreneur who transformed a small soapworks into the international conglomerate of hundreds of companies known today as Lever Brothers.

1839 - George Cadbury - English businessman who with his brother, Richard, built the Cadbury Brothers cocoa and chocolate manufacturing firm; famous today for Cadbury Eggs at Easter time.

1737 - Charles Carroll - American lawyer, representative to the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator and longest surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. He lived until 1832.

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

1928 - Walt Disney's creation, Mickey Mouse, starred in the first animated cartoon with sound, "Steamboat Willie."