Isaiah Jeremiah

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 Jennifer and Sergio on the birth of their beautiful new son Isaiah Jeremiah.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 0 ounces

Length: 19 1/2

Time: 5:42 p.m.

Date: Monday, September 21, 2009

Delivered by: Rebecca Ullman, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Nellie M. Wirsing, MD

Origin of the name Isaiah . . .

Hebrew - "God is my salvation"

Monday, September 21, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 83

Local low: 41

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 6:54 a.m. and set at 7:06 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: 306,392,643

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

1947 - Stephen King - 20th Century master of the macabre. One of the most popular and prolific authors of his time who wrote dozens of horror novels, stories and screenplays.

1912 - Chuck Jones - Cartoonist and animation director for Warner Brothers who created some of the best cartoon characters of the 20th century, including, "The Road Runner"," Pepe Le Pew" and "Wiley Coyote".

1866 - H. G. Wells - English novelist, journalist and historian. He is best known for his science fiction classics, "The Time Machine" and "The War of the Worlds".

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

1981 - By a 99 to 0 vote the Senate confirmed Ronald Reagan's appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court. She was the first woman to attain that position.

1965 - Thirty-seven year old Ted Erikson of Chicago became the first American to swim the English Channel roundtrip, completing the feat in a total of 30 hours and 3 minutes.

1784 - Issue number one of "The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser" was published in Philadelphia, it was the first daily paper in America.