Dominic

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 Rosa and Eusebio on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Dominic .

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 14 ounces

Length: 20

Time: 8:24 a.m.

Date: Monday, November 2, 2009

Delivered by: Martin Meinig, M.D.

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

Origin of the name Dominic . . .

Latin - "Belonging to the Lord"

Monday, November 2, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 62

Local low: 23

The nation's weather extremes were 94 recorded at nationHighLocation and -17 recorded at Anaktuvuk Pass and Denali National Park, Alaska

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 6:42 a.m. and set at 4:59 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,712.73

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: 306,560,139

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

1865 - Warren G. Harding - Ohio lieutenant governor, U.S. Senator, and 29th President of the Untied States.

1795 - James K. Polk - 11th President of the United States whose time in office is marked by territorial gains including Texas, California, and the Oregon territory.

1755 - Marie-Antoinette - Most famous Queen of France in history whose opposition to reform contributed to the development of the French Revolution in 1792.

1734 - Daniel Boone - Legendary American frontiersman who blazed the trail through the Cumberland Gap opening Kentucky to the country's first westward expansion.

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

1947 - The world's largest airplane, Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose," made its only flight, one mile at 80 mph. The plane's wingspan measured 320 feet and it weighed about 400,000 pounds.

1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states admitted to the Union.