Kylie Dawn

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 Jinnelle and Kalvin on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Kylie Dawn.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 7.8 ounces

Length: 20 1/2

Time: 1:46 p.m.

Date: Friday, October 16, 2009

Delivered by: Martin Meinig, M.D.

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

Origin of the name Kylie . . .

Australian Aborigine - Curled stick or Boomerang

Friday, October 16, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 71

Local low: 33

The nation's weather extremes were 103 recorded at nationHighLocation and 8 recorded at Northway, Alaska

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:21 a.m. and set at 6:23 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 10,062.94

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: 306,492,343

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

1898 - William O. Douglas - Held the record for the longest tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court - 36 years from 1939 to 1975

1886 - David Ben-Gurion - Zionist political leader and Israel's first Prime Minister, known as the "Father of Israel."

1758 - Noah Webster - American lexicographer and creator of the "American Dictionary of the English Language" and of the "American Spelling Book" which has sold an estimated 100,000,000 copies.

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

1846 - Dr. John Warren demonstrated the use of ether as an anesthetic in a surgery during a procedure performed at Massachsetts General Hospital.

1829 - America's first modern, first-class hotel, the 170 room Tremont Hotel opened in Boston. Rooms cost $2 a day, but that included 4 meals.