Kelly and Todd have chosen the name Brendan Ryan for their beautiful new boy born at Benefis Hospitals.

Brendan
Names Origin: English, Irish
Name's original meaning: "Little raven"; "Sword."

Weight: 7 pounds, 8 ounces ounces
Length: 19 3/4 inches
Time: 7:51 a.m.
Date: Monday, October 13, 2008

Delivered by: Marci J. Eck, M.D.
Baby's doctor: Craig C. Matelich, MD

Monday, October 13, 2008 A Day To Remember

Sunrise and sunset:

• 7:23 a.m. a.m.
• 6:32 p.m. p.m.

Local weather:

• Great Falls high: 52° F
• Great Falls low: 23° F

The nation's weather extremes:

• High: 93° F at Alice, Texas
• Low: -5° F at McGrath, Alaska

• 9,387.61

Your dollar's worth

• Loaf of bread: $2.49
• Gallon of milk: $3.85
• Gallon of gasoline: $3.19
• First-class stamp: $0.42
• New car: $21,750.00
• Average new home: $155,000.00

Other interesting people born on this date:

• 1962 - Jerry Rice - San Francisco '49er wide receiver, record holder for most touchdowns, and arguably the best football player of all time.
• 1925 - Margaret Thatcher - "The Iron Lady" She was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain and the most powerful woman of the 20th Century.
• 1754 - Molly Pitcher - An American Revolutionary War hero, honored for bravery at the battle of Monmouth where she carried water to injured colonial fighters and replaced her exhausted husband manning a cannon.

Other notable events on this day in history:

• 1792 - The cornerstone for the first federal building in Washington, D.C., the White House, was laid. The executive mansion would be first inhabited eight years later by President John Adams.
• 1775 - The U.S. Navy was born as the second Continental Congress authorized a newly formed marine committee to acquire ships and control naval affairs.