Adam Garrett

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 Rita and Brad on the birth of their beautiful new son Adam Garrett.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 6 ounces

Length: 20

Time: 8:45 a.m.

Date: Monday, October 5, 2009

Delivered by: Jeri Britsch, M.D.

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

Origin of the name Adam . . .

Hebrew - Man of red earth

Monday, October 5, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 55

Local low: 34

The nation's weather extremes were 101 recorded at nationHighLocation and 7 recorded at Arctic Village, Alaska

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:09 a.m. and set at 6:41 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: 306,448,475

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

1929 - Richard Gordon, Jr. - American astronaut who piloted the Command Module during Apollo 12, the second flight to land humans on the moon.

1902 - Ray Kroc - American entrepreneur who built the McDonald's fast food empire.

1882 - Robert Goddard - American Physicist and the "Father of Modern Rocketry" who achieved the first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.

1830 - Chester A. Arthur - Twenty-first President of the United States from 1881-1885.

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

1970 - David Kunst completed a 14,450 mile walk across four continents that encircled the globe. It was the first verified walk around the world.

1953 - The New York Yankees clinched the World Series becoming the first baseball team to ever win five consecutive World Championships.

1947 - President Harry Truman became the first President to address the nation via television, asking citizens to help the starving in Euorope by abstaining from eating meat and poultry one day a week.