Jacoby James

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 Alicia and Christopher on the birth of their beautiful new son Jacoby James.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 15 ounces

Length: 20 1/2

Time: 3 08 a.m.

Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Delivered by: Cory T Johnson, MD

Baby's Doctor: Tracy Graham, M.D.

Origin of the name Jacoby . . .

Hebrew - "Supplanter"

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 52

Local low: 32

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:02 a.m. and set at 6:52 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,789.36

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: 306,424,547

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

1943 - Lech Walesa - Activist who led Poland's first independent trade union and became the first directly elected president of Poland upon the overthrow of the dictatorship in his country.

1925 - Paul MacCready - American who led the effort that resulted in the successful construction of both the first man- and solar-powered aircraft capable of sustained flight.

1907 - Gene Autry - "The Singing Cowboy". He was the star of more than a hundred western movies, singer of the megahit, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and owner of the California Angels baseball team.

1787 - Catherine McAuley - Irish founder of the Religious Sisters of Mercy whose legacy includes the good works of the Sisters of the order and hundreds of Mercy Hospitals worldwide.

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

1988 - Stacy Allison became the first American woman to successfully ascend to the summit of the world's highest peak, 29,028-foot Mount Everest.

1892 - Mansfield, Pennsylvania, hosted the first night football game featuring 20 electric lights.

1789 - Josiah Harmar took charge as the Commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army. George Washington actually was the fifth Commander-in-chief.