Hunter Wyatt

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 Wendy and Tanner on the birth of their beautiful new son Hunter Wyatt.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 8 pounds and 4 ounces

Length: 20

Time: 12:14 p.m.

Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Delivered by: Cory T Johnson, MD

Baby's Doctor: James Novak, M.D.

Origin of the name Hunter . . .

English, Old English - Huntsman

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 55

Local low: 44

The nation's weather extremes were 100 recorded at nationHighLocation and 13 recorded at Northway, Alaska, and Spincich Lake, Mich.

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:19 a.m. and set at 6:26 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,885.80

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: 306,484,367

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

1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower - Five Star General who as supreme commander directed Allied forces to victory in World War II and who became the 34th President of the United States.

1873 - Ray C. Ewry- American athlete who overcame polio to become the only athlete ever to win eight individual gold medals in the modern Olympic Games.

1857 - Elwood Haynes - American inventor who built one of the first automobiles and claimed to have received the first traffic ticket in it. The car is exhibited at the Smithsonian as the oldest surviving American-made automobile.

1644 - William Penn - English religious leader who founded the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe.

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

1960 - Senator John Kennedy first expressed the idea of a Peace Corps during a campaign speech to students, a year later the all volunteer corps had become a reality.

1947 - Chuck Yeager, aboard the rocket-powered experimental aircraft X-1, became the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound.