Reece Lynae

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 Kristina and Brendan on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Reece Lynae.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 7.8 ounces

Length: 19 3/4

Time: 11 09 a.m.

Date: Monday, October 19, 2009

Delivered by: Martin Meinig, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Sarah A. Lamanuzzi, M.D.

Origin of the name Reece . . .

Welsh - "Fiery, zealous"

Monday, October 19, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 50

Local low: 32

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:25 a.m. and set at 6:18 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,995.91

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: 306,504,307

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

1931 - John Le Carre - Popular English author of realistic spy novels including "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "The Russia House" and others.

1885 - Charles E. Merrill - American financier who guided his company through a series of mergers that resulted in giant stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch.

1810 - Cassius Marcellus Clay - American politician and newspaper publisher and antislavery leader despite being raised the son of a slaveowner.

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

1941 - Inventor Palmer Putnam helped shine the light on alternate forms of energy production as his wind turbine to generate electricity was set in motion at Grandpa's Knob, Vermont.

1781 - British General Cornwallis surrendered his army to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the American War of Independence.