Triston Lewis

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 Marian and Peter on the birth of their beautiful new son Triston Lewis.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 8 pounds and 13.2 ounces

Length: 21 3/4

Time: 5:14 a.m.

Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Delivered by: Cory T Johnson, MD

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

Origin of the name Triston . . .

French, Welsh - Sad", "Bold"

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 88

Local low: 39

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 6:55 a.m. and set at 7:04 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,778.86

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: 306,396,631

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

1932 - Ingemar Johansson - Became Sweden's only heavyweight boxing champion in 1959 by defeating American Floyd Patterson. Patterson regained the crown from Johannson a year later.

1896 - Sir Henry Segrave - Early automobile and motorboat racer who became the first human to break the 200 mph land speed barrier, traveling 203.79 mph on March 29, 1927.

1791 - Michael Faraday - English scientist whose work changed the world. He discovered the principle of the electric motor and built the first electric dynamo.

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

1973 - Henry Kissinger swore the oath of office becoming the first naturalized citizen to hold the office of Secretary of State.

1950 - Colonel David Schilling accomplished the first nonstop jet airplane flight across the Atlantic in 10 hours, about 23 1/2 hours less than Charles Lindbergh's flight time some 23 years earlier.

1863 - One of this country's most notable documents, "The Emancipation Proclamation", was issued by President Abraham Lincoln.