Cade Christopher

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 Emily and Christopher on the birth of their beautiful new son Cade Christopher.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 9 pounds and 4.8 ounces

Length: 21

Time: 8:50 a.m.

Date: Monday, October 12, 2009

Delivered by: Martin Meinig, M.D.

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

Origin of the name Cade . . .

Welsh - "Battle"

Monday, October 12, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 62

Local low: 30

The nation's weather extremes were 94 recorded at nationHighLocation and -13 recorded at Polebridge, Mont.

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:17 a.m. and set at 6:30 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: 306,476,391

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

1935 - Luciano Pavarotti - Italian tenor who did much to popularize operatic music during the latter part of the 20th Century.

1860 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry - Prolific American inventor and entrepreneur who received more than 400 patents and founded eight successful manufacturing companies during his life.

1803 - Alexander Stewart - American merchant who built the world's largest retail outlet in 1862 and developed the community of Garden City, Long Island.

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

1881 - The Prospect House at Blue Mountain Lake, New York, set a new standard in luxury acomodations as it became the first hotel to install electric lights.

1802 - Joseph Swift and Simon Levy traded in their cadet stripes for second lieutenant bars as they became the first graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

1492 - Christopher Columbus recorded the first European sighting of the Western Hemisphere as the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria arrived in what is now the Bahamas.