Juba Valentine

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 Adrien and Joshua on the birth of their beautiful new son Juba Valentine.

Sky Lakes is a great experience!

Birth Statistics

Weight: 8 pounds and 1 ounce

Length: 21

Time: 5:24 p.m.

Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Delivered by: Sarah A. Lamanuzzi, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Sarah A. Lamanuzzi, M.D.

Origin of the name Juba . . .

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 70

Local low: 25

The nation's weather extremes were 97 recorded at nationHighLocation and -29 recorded at Arctic Village, Alaska

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 6:44 a.m. and set at 4:57 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,771.91

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: 306,568,115

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

1879 - Will Rogers - One of America's best loved entertainers of the 20th Century known for his down-home humor and the creed he lived by: "I never met a man I didn't like."

1842 - William Cushing - Union Navy officer who gained an aura of invulnerability as he successfully accomplished four years of daring exploits during the Civil War.

1732 - Thomas Johnson - American patriot, first governor of Maryland, and Supreme Court Justice. He voted for the Declaration of Independence and nominated George Washington to be Commander in Chief.

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

1939 - Packard unveiled the first air conditioned car at the Chicago, Illinois, automobile show.

1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross won the election to succeed her late husband as governor of Wyoming, becoming the first woman to be elected a state's governor in America.

1922 - Egyptologist Howard Carter uncovered the greatest find in the annals of Egyptian archeology, the 3,000 year old tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen.

1879 - James Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, received a patent on the first cash register, a machine he designed to reduce stealing by bartenders in his saloon.