Makiah Joy Louise Lynn

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 Stephanie and Timothy on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Makiah Joy Louise Lynn.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 2.4 ounces

Length: 18

Time: 6:25 p.m.

Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009

Delivered by: Robert Ross, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Robert Ross, M.D.

Origin of the name Makiah . . .

American - The prefix Ma + Kiah: "Season's beginning"

Sunday, September 20, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 73

Local low: 37

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 6:53 a.m. and set at 7:07 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: 306,388,655

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

1935 - Jim Taylor - American professional football player and one of the top running backs in the history of the game.

1917 - Red Auerbach - Basketball coach who directed the Boston Celtics to a record nine NBA championships during a ten year span.

1861 - Herbert Putnam - American library official who is credited with building the Library of Congress into one of the great libraries of the world.

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

1884 - The Equal Rights Party held its first convention in San Francisco, nominating Mrs. Belva Lockwood as its standard bearer and candidate for President of the United States.

1859 - George B. Simpson of Washington, D.C., received a patent for his truly great idea, the "electroheater", today known as the electric range.