Alexandria Paige

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 Kristi and Santiago on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Alexandria Paige.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 8 pounds and 2.4 ounces

Length: 21 1/2

Time: 2:32 p.m.

Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Delivered by: Cory T Johnson, MD

Baby's Doctor: Gabriel Mayland, M.D.

Origin of the name Alexandria . . .

Greek - "Defender of mankind."

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 43

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 7:35 a.m. and set at 6:07 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,867.96

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: 306,536,211

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

1872 - Emily Post - American author whose book "Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage" has made her name synonymous with proper manners in society.

1858 - Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President of the United States known for building the Panama Canal and beginning the National Park System.

1811 - Issac Singer, American entrepreneur and innovator who brought the world the first practical home sewing machine and started the company that bears his name.

1728 - James Cook - British sea captain and explorer who was the first European to see and chart many land masses in the Pacific Ocean.

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

2004 - The Boston Red Sox broke the 84-year long "Curse of the Bambino" by winning their first World Series since 1918.

1997 - In an effort to thwart the long-standing problem of counterfeiting, the U.S. Treasury began issuing redesigned $50 bills.

1904 - The first rapid transit subway system in American began operation in New York City. The fare for a ride was five cents.

1492 - Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the New World, became the first European to view the Island of Cuba and claimed it for Spain.