Grady Jay

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 Kassee and Craig on the birth of their beautiful new son Grady Jay.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 8 pounds and 3.8 ounces

Length: 20

Time: 8:15 a.m.

Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Delivered by:

Origin of the name Grady . . .

Irish - "Nobel", "Illustrious"

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 50

Local low: 42

The nation's weather extremes were 96 recorded at nationHighLocation and 13 recorded at Hibbing, Minn.

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:18 a.m. and set at 6:28 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: 306,480,379

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

1962 - Jerry Rice - San Francisco '49er wide receiver, record holder for most touchdowns, and arguably the best football player of all time.

1925 - Margaret Thatcher - "The Iron Lady" She was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain and the most powerful woman of the 20th Century.

1754 - Molly Pitcher - An American Revolutionary War hero, honored for bravery at the battle of Monmouth where she carried water to injured colonial fighters and replaced her exhausted husband manning a cannon.

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

1792 - The cornerstone for the first federal building in Washington, D.C., the White House, was laid. The executive mansion would be first inhabited eight years later by President John Adams.

1775 - The U.S. Navy was born as the second Continental Congress authorized a newly formed marine committee to acquire ships and control naval affairs.