Dylan Austin

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 Monica and Douglas on the birth of their beautiful new son Dylan Austin.

Stubborn like his Dad!

Birth Statistics

Weight: 8 pounds and 5 ounces

Length: 22

Time: 5:58 p.m.

Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Delivered by: Rebecca Ullman, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: James Calvert, M.D.

Origin of the name Dylan . . .

Welsh - "Son of the Waves" or "Man from the Sea"

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 43

Local low: 21

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

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:36 a.m. and set at 6:05 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,882.17

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: 306,540,199

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

1949 - Bruce Jenner - American athlete who achieved the unofficial title of "World's Greatest Athlete" by winning the Olympic Decathlon Gold Medal in 1976.

1914 - Dr. Jonas Salk - American scientist and physician whose anti-polio vaccine saved countless children from the miseries of the affliction.

1793 - Eliphalet Remington - American inventor and firearms maker who built the Remington Arms Company.

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

1949 - Eugenia Moore Anderson took the oath of office to become U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, the first female Ambassador from the United States.

1929 - Mrs. T.W. Evans became the first to give birth in an airplane as she delivered a bouncing baby girl in a plane over Miami, Florida.

1929 - In what was probably the toughest day in the history of the American economy, the stock market crashed, fortunes were lost and the country headed into the Great Depression.

1886 - The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship to the people of America from the people of France, was dedicated at its site on Ellis Island by President Grover Cleveland.