Shasta Lynn

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 Chelsea and Robert on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Shasta Lynn.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 13 ounces

Length: 20

Time: 7:44 p.m.

Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009

Delivered by: Martin Meinig, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Robert Ross, M.D.

Origin of the name Shasta . . .

Native American - Meaning unknown

Sunday, October 11, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 70

Local low: 24

The nation's weather extremes were 95 recorded at nationHighLocation and -10 recorded at Polebridge, Mont.

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:16 a.m. and set at 6:31 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: 306,472,403

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

1925 - Elmore Leonard - American author of intelligent and fun mystery novels including "Get Shorty", "Maximum Bob", "Rum Punch" and others.

1906 - Charles Revson -American entrepreneur who built the world's largest cosmetic and fragrance company, Revlon, which offered more than 3,000 different products.

1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady of the United States, wife of President Franklin Roosevelt and United Nations delegate under President Truman.

1884 - Henry Heinz - Founder of the H.J. Heinz company, the largest producer of pickles, vinegar, and ketchup in the United States.

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

1984 - American astronaut Kathryn Sullivan stepped from the confines of the space shuttle to become the first woman to ever walk in space.

1968 - Astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Apollo 7 spacecraft, the first manned mission of the Apollo series.

1938 - James Slayter and John Thomas of Newark, Ohio, received patents for fiberglass and the machinery to manufacture it.