Elaina Belle

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 Rachell and Jeremy on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Elaina Belle.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 1.8 ounces

Length: 20

Time: 10:57 a.m.

Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Delivered by: Robert Ross, M.D.

Origin of the name Elaina . . .

French, Greek - Root: Helen - "Light"

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 90

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 6:56 a.m. and set at 7:02 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,829.87

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: 306,400,619

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

1889 - Walter Lippmann - American newspaperman who became one of the most respected political columnists in the world and won Pulitzer Prizes in 1958 and 1962 for his work.

1861 - Robert Bosch - German engineer who invented, among other things, two devices necessary for the development of the automobile - the magneto and the sparkplug.

1745 - John Sevier - American Revolutionary War hero, frontiersman, U.S. Congressman and the first Governor of the short-lived state of Franklin and later of the state of Tennessee.

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

1845 - Alexander Joe Cartwright organized the first modern baseball team, the Knickerbocker Club of New York. They had to wait until June of 1846 before another team was available to play and then lost to their opponents 23 to 1.