Kendrah Michelle Lee

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 Charlotte and James on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Kendrah Michelle Lee.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 14.4 ounces

Length: 20

Time: 10:19 p.m.

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Delivered by: Arielle Metz, M.D.

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

Origin of the name Kendrah . . .

Origin unclear - "Knowing"

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 61

Local low: 36

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:27 a.m. and set at 6:15 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,949.36

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: 306,512,283

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

1833 - Alfred Nobel -Swedish chemist and entrepreneur who invented dynamite and other, explosives and who used some of the fortune they brought him to found the Nobel Prizes.

1772 - Samuel Coleridge - English poet most remembered for his classic tale, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

1736 - William Shippen, Jr. - First physician to offer courses in anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics in the United States and to open a maternity hospital in America.

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

1879 - Thomas Edison successfully tested an incandescent electric light following 13 months of research and thousands of experiments.

1805 - In one of the greatest sea battles of all time, The Battle of Trafalgar, the British fleet, under Admiral Horatio Nelson, defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets.

1797 - One of the U.S. Navy's first warships, the Frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston. Known as "Old Ironsides", she is the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy.