Alexander John

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 Jaime and William on the birth of their beautiful new son Alexander John.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 9.4 ounces

Length: 20 1/2

Time: 9:48 a.m.

Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009

Delivered by: Arielle Metz, M.D.

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

Origin of the name Alexander . . .

English, Greek - Defender of men

Saturday, October 24, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 59

Local low: 33

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The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:31 a.m. and set at 6:11 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: 306,524,247

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

1855 - James Sherman - Vice President of the United States in the administration of William Howard Taft.

1788 - Sarah Hale - American journalist and author who penned "Mary had a Little Lamb" in 1830.

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

1945 - The United Nations was formally established with the ratification of the U.N. Charter by the five permanent members of the Security Council and a majority of other participants.

1931 - The efforts of Elliot Ness and the "Untouchables" paid off as famed Chicago gangster, Al Capone, was sentenced to serve 11 years in federal prison for income tax evasion.

1901 - Adventurer Anna Edson Taylor began a daredevils' tradition when she fell 175 feet over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She did live to tell about it.

1861 - The Pony Express suffered a fatal blow with the initiation of the transcontinental telegraph. That first telegram was sent from California Chief Justice Stephen Johnson Field to President Lincoln.