Alexander Eluterio

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 Lucia on the birth of their beautiful new son Alexander Eluterio.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 12 ounces

Length: 19 1/2

Time: 9:52 a.m.

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009

Delivered by: Martin Meinig, M.D.

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

Origin of the name Alexander . . .

English, Greek - Defender of men

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 60

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 7:28 a.m. and set at 6:14 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: 306,516,271

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

1938 - Christopher Lloyd - American comedic actor known for his roles as Reverend Jim on TV series "Taxi", as a key figure in the "Back to the Futures" moves, and in many other big screen hits.

1844 - Sarah Bernhardt - French actress who performed in Europe and America during the late 1800's and early 1900's becoming one of the best known performing artists ever.

1821 - Collis Huntington - American who played a major role in opening up the American West through his development of Central Pacific Railroad into the first transcontinental railroad.

1811 - Franz Liszt - Hungarian musician recognized as the greatest piano virtuoso of his time and with more than 700 compositions, one of the great music composers of all-time.

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

1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first elected President of the newly formed Republic of Texas.

1797 - French adventurer Andre-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a hot air balloon 2300 feet above Paris and into history as he became the first person to successfully complete a parachute jump.