Lincoln Gabriel

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 Heather and Osten on the birth of their beautiful new son Lincoln Gabriel.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 14.4 ounces

Length: 20 3/4

Time: 4:10 p.m.

Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009

Delivered by: Arielle Metz, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Nicola J. Cherry, M.D.

Origin of the name Lincoln . . .

Old English - Place name: "Town by the pool"

Sunday, October 18, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 63

Local low: 37

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:24 a.m. and set at 6:20 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: 306,500,319

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

1926 - Chuck Berry - Rock and Roll legend famous for classics "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven", "Sweet Little Sixteen" and more.

1886 - David Ben-Gurion -The Father of Israel - Chief Architect and first prime minister of the state of Israel

1595 - Edward Winslow - English pilgrim and a principal founder of the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts.

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

1977 - Baseball great Reggie Jackson made baseball history when he hit three home runs on three successive ptiches, leading the Yankees to an 8-4 win over the Dodgers in the World Series.

1867 - The United States took possession of the Alaska Territory having purchased it from Russia for about two cents per acre.