Beau Dylan

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 Julie and Paul on the birth of their beautiful new son Beau Dylan.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 6.4 ounces

Length: 20 1/2

Time: 9:51 p.m.

Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009

Delivered by: Cory T Johnson, MD

Baby's Doctor: Jerri Britsch, M.D.

Origin of the name Beau . . .

, French - "Handsome"

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 87

Local low: 43

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 6:57 a.m. and set at 7:00 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,707.44

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: 306,404,607

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

1936 - Jim Henson - American puppeteer and creator of some of the world's favorite characters, including, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Big Bird and the Cookie Monster.

1930 - Ray Charles - American musician known as "The Genius". His musical talents seem to know no bounds as he has had hits in all types of music ranging from the blues to country-western to gospel.

1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Noted American author and social figure of the 1920's whose books included, "This side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby".

1843 - Adam Wagnalls - American publisher and co-founder of the respected publishing firm Funk & Wagnalls.

1755 - John Marshall - Fourth Chief Justice of the United States who is credited with founding America's system of constitutional law, including the principle of judicial review.

1501 - Gerolamo Cardano - Italian physician and thinker considered to be the greatest mathematician of his time. He gave us the cubic equation and the first system for probabilities computations.

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

1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt signed legislation designating the 865-foot volcanic rock column, The Devils Tower in Wyoming, as the first National Monument.

1779 - In one of the most famous naval battles in American history, John Paul Jones replied, "I have not yet begun to fight," to a British opponent's call to surrender. He went on to win the battle and capture two British ships.