Zoey Alexandra

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 Trinity and Victor on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Zoey Alexandra.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds and 3 ounces

Length: 19

Time: 10:57 a.m.

Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Delivered by: Arielle Metz, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: John Wilson, M.D.

Origin of the name Zoey . . .

Greek - "Life"

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 64

Local low: 26

The nation's weather extremes were 98 recorded at nationHighLocation and -26 recorded at Arctic Village, Alaska

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 6:43 a.m. and set at 4:58 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,789.44

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: 306,564,127

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

1933 - Michael S Dukakis - Governor of Massachusetts and Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1988.

1845 - Edward Douglas White - Ninth Supreme Court Chief Justice who played an important role during the development of anti-monopoly laws in the early 20th Century.

1793 - Stephen Austin - Early settler and of the then Mexican territory of Texas and person for whom Texas' capital city, Austin, is named.

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

1983 - A new national holiday was set as President Reagan signed a bill setting aside the third Monday of each January to honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

1948 - The most unexpected upset in American presidential politics took place with President Harry S. Truman defeating New York Governor Thomas Dewey.

1917 - The cost of living took a jump as the price of a first class stamp increased to three cents.

1868 - Republican John Willis Menard became the first black American to be elected to the U.S. Congress. Due to a legal challenge by his defeated opponent, he was never seated in the Congress.