We are blessed with the arrival of a baby boy!

The Staff of St. James Mercy Health Birthing Center add our congratulations and very best wishes to Laura and Pasquale on the birth of their beautiful new son Marco Alfonso

Birth Statistics

Weight: 7 pounds, 3.6 ounces

Length: 20 1/2 inches

Time: 8:26 a.m.

Date:Friday, October 26, 2007

Delivered by: Sung-Hoon Yang, MD

Origin of the name Marco . . .
Italian - "Warlike one"

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Friday, October 26, 2007 - a day to remember

The Weather:

• Local high: 61° F
• Local low: 39° F
• The nation's weather extremes were 96° at Yuma, Arizona and -26° at Arctic Village, Alaska
• The sun rose over Hornell at 7:36 a.m. and set at 6:12 p.m.

In the financial world

• The Dow Jones closed at 13,806.70
• Minimum Wage was $7.15

A market basket of consumer prices looked like this

• Loaf of bread: $1.98
• Gallon of milk: $2.98
• Gallon of gasoline: $3.00
• First-class stamp: $0.41
• New car: $21,750.00
• Average new home: $128,000.00

Population:

• Hornell: 9,019
• U.S. population: 302,349,504

Marco Alfonso shares his birthday with these other interesting people

• 1946 - Hillary Rodham Clinton - Attorney, political activist and First Lady of the United States and wife of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton.
• 1854 - Charles Post - American food processing entrepreneur and innovator who founded the giant Post cereal company and invented "Grape Nuts."
• 1786 - Henry Deringer - American inventor a firearms manufacturer known for the tiny deringer pistol fancied by professional gamblers in the Old West.

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

• 1881 - Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan and Doc Holliday stepped into Western folklore as they routed the Clanton gang at the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral."
• 1858 - Inventor Hamilton Erastus Smith received a patent for a hand-cranked, rotary motion washing machine, a huge improvement over the tub and washboard method used previously.
• 1825 - The economic influence of mid-America was greatly enhanced with the opening of the 350 mile long Erie Canal that connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River.
• 1774 - The legendary citizen fighting force known as "The Minute Men" was organized in America. Six months later they would see the first action of the American War of Independence at Concord.