Anton John

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 Lisa and Stephen on the birth of their beautiful new son Anton John.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 3.8 ounces

Length: 21

Time: 8 02 a.m.

Date: Monday, September 28, 2009

Delivered by: Martin Meinig, M.D.

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

Origin of the name Anton . . .

Latin - Clan name of Romans, possibly meaning "beyond price, invaluable"

Monday, September 28, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 78

Local low: 38

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:01 a.m. and set at 6:53 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,665.19

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: 306,420,559

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

1954 - Steve Largent - Outstanding pro-football wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks who set records for most consecutive games with a reception, most yards on receptions and others. Later a U.S. Congressman.

1909 - Al Capp - Cartoonist whose newspaper comic strip, "Li'l Abner", with characters Daisy Mae, Mammy Yokum, Li'l Abner and others, delighted readers from 1934 through 1977.

1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggin - Leader of the kindergarten education movement in the United States and author of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."

1839 - Frances Willard - American political activist who founded the WTCU (World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union) in 1883, one of the forces that resulted in alcohol prohibition during the 1920's.

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

1910 - Optometry classes were offered for the first time in America with the introduction of a two-year course in the field at Columbia University in New York City.

1781 - Some 16,000 Colonial and French troops began the siege of Yorktown, the action that would result in the British surrender and the end to the American War of Independence.

1542 - Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed at San Diego Bay, the first European landing on the Pacific Coast and the first exploration of what is now California.