Jonathan Lewis

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 Elizabeth and Anthony on the birth of their beautiful new son Jonathan Lewis.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 8.2 ounces

Length: 19

Time: 8:11 p.m.

Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009

Delivered by: Alejandro Rey, M.D.

Origin of the name Jonathan . . .

Hebrew, English - "God has been gracious"

Saturday, October 10, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 66

Local low: 30

The nation's weather extremes were 96 recorded at nationHighLocation and -11 recorded at Utica, Mont.

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:14 a.m. and set at 6:33 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,864.94

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: 306,468,415

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

1956 - Martina Navratilova - Women's professional tennis star who proved her domination of the game with 18 major championships including nine Wimbledon titles.

1924 - James Clavell - American author of popular, epic novels set in Asia including "Shogun", "Noble House", "King Rat", and others.

1813 - Giuseppe Verdi - The leading Italian composer of the 19th Century highly regarded for his operas "La Traviata", "Rigoletto", and others.

1770 - Benjamin Wright - American engineer who built the Erie Canal and who is considered to be the "Father of American Engineering."

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

1978 - President Jimmy Carter signed legislation authorizing minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar.

1920 - Cleveland Indians second baseman William Wambsganss proved he belonged in the World Series when he completed the first ever unassisted triple play in a Series.

1913 - The waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans came together in the Panama Canal for the first time when crews removed the Gamboa Dam.

1845 - The U.S. Naval Academy welcomed the first 56 cadets through its doors at Windmill Point in Annapolis, Maryland.