Queen Jaydah

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 Echo and Randy on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Queen Jaydah.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 5 pounds and 13.2 ounces

Length: 19 1/2

Time: 7:55 a.m.

Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009

Delivered by: Rebecca Ullman, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Nicola J. Cherry, M.D.

Origin of the name Queen . . .

English - "Queen"

Saturday, October 3, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 49

Local low: 30

The nation's weather extremes were 97 recorded at nationHighLocation and 7 recorded at Arctic Village, Alaska

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:07 a.m. and set at 6:45 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,487.67

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: 306,440,499

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

1951 - Kathryn Sullivan - American scientist and astronaut who became the first woman to walk in space- doing so in 1984.

1854 - William Crawford Gorgas - U.S. Army medical officer whose efforts led to the control malaria and yellow fever in Panama making possible the construction of the Panama Canal.

1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi - founder of the Franciscan orders, leader of the church reform movements of the early 13th century, and Patron Saint of Italy.

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

1901 - The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. It was the leader in bringing recorded music to the world with its Victrola phonograph.

1893 - J. S. Thurman of St. Louis, Missouri, received a patent for a machine that would change lifestyles around the world, the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.

1863 - A national holiday was born as President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day.