Lydia Rose

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 Janice and Travis on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Lydia Rose.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 1 ounce

Length: 21

Time: 8:47 a.m.

Date: Sunday, October 25, 2009

Delivered by: Rebecca Ullman, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Dwight Smith, M.D.

Origin of the name Lydia . . .

Greek - "With a good mind"; "Beauty."

Sunday, October 25, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 62

Local low: 26

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The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:32 a.m. and set at 6:10 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,972.18

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: 306,528,235

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

1888 - Richard Byrd - American Navy officer and pioneer aviator best known for his explorations of Antarctica using airplanes.

1881 - Pablo Picasso - Famed Spanish artist who created the artistic genre of cubism and who was the major contributor to the development of modern art during the 20th century.

1825 - Johann Strauss - Austrian composer known as "The Waltz King" for compositions such as "The Blue Danube", "Emperor Waltz" and many more.

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

1960 - The Accutron, the world's first electronic watch, was unveiled by the Bulova Watch Company this day.

1940 - Benjamin Oliver Davis put on the stars of a brigadier general becoming the first American of African ancestry to achieve the rank of general in the U.S. Army.