Nakoah Wintersky

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 Laurice and Robert on the birth of their beautiful new son Nakoah Wintersky.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 8 pounds and 14.8 ounces

Length: 21 1/4

Time: 8:27 a.m.

Date: Friday, September 25, 2009

Delivered by: Arielle Metz, M.D.

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

Origin of the name Nakoah . . .

Friday, September 25, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 90

Local low: 44

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 6:58 a.m. and set at 6:59 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: 306,408,595

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

1952 - Christopher Reeve - Popular American actor who brought Superman to the big screen and became a full-time advocate for handicapped people, following his own unfortunate accident.

1897 - William Faulkner - Nobel Prize winning author who many include on the list of great 20th Century writers for novels such as "The Sound and the Fury", "As I Lay Dying" and others.

1764 - Fletcher Christian - British sailor and the leader of the most famous mutiny in history, the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty.

1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot - French engineer and designer of the first true automobile, a steam-powered tricycle.

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

1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first woman Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1960 - Presidential election campaigns changed forever as Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy debated on live TV before an audience of some 69 million people. Kennedy won the debate and the election.

1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa became the first European to view the Pacific Ocean from the Americas, doing so from a peak in the Darien rain forest in what is now Panama.