Halle Robin

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 Cathy and Jakob on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Halle Robin.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 8 pounds and 9 ounces

Length: 19 3/4

Time: 2 07 p.m.

Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Delivered by: Alejandro Rey, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Alejandro Rey, M.D.

Origin of the name Halle . . .

Old English - Place name: "Hay meadow"

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 55

Local low: 28

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:26 a.m. and set at 6:17 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 10,092.19

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: 306,508,295

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

1931 - Mickey Mantle - Baseball Hall of Famer, three-time most valuable player, one of the game's heaviest hitters and most popular players of all time.

1905 - Frederick Dannay - Co-author, with Cousin Manfred Lee, of the classic detective stories featuring master detective Ellery Queen.

1884 - Bela Lugosi - Actor who introduced movie audiences to one of the most frightening characters of all time, Count Dracula in the 1931 classic of the same name.

1632 - Sir Christopher Wren - English astronomer, mathematician and the greatest architect of his time, credited with the design of 53 London churches including St. Paul's Cathedral.

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

1929 - America's first community hospital was organized this date in Elk City, Oklahoma.

1803 - The U.S. Senate ratified the purchase of an 828,000 square mile parcel of land from France known as the Louisiana Purchase. The cost was a little less than three cents per acre.