LAKEPORT, Calif. – Sutter Lakeside Hospital is pleased to announce the arrival of Josiah Blake Lemoin Sneathen, the first 2014 baby born in the Family Birth Center.  

Born to parents Ashley and Brandon Sneathen on Jan. 3 at 2:57 p.m., Josiah weighed 9 pounds 1 ounce and measured 21.75 inches long.

The Family Birth Center gave the happy family a basket full of gift items to commemorate their baby’s arrival.

The family also is the very first recipient of a 2014 Imagination Library membership certificate.  

Members of Imagination Library receive a book in the mail each month to read, enjoy and keep.  

The first 100 babies born in 2014 in the Family Birth Center at Sutter Lakeside Hospital will receive a year-long scholarship to enroll in Imagination Library.  

This program is sponsored by a partnership between Sutter Lakeside, the Lake County Office of Education and the Lake County Literacy Task Force.

“Imagination Library is in its second year in Lake County and we’re very pleased with the momentum we’re seeing the program experience in our community,” said Lake County Superintendent of Schools Wally Holbrook.

Holbrook wished little Josiah Baby Sneathen a lifetime of reading.

Jackie Rad, RNC, nurse manager of the Family Birth Center, added, “Our birth center is always busy.  The New Year’s baby always makes us pause, celebrate and remember how much we love what we do here at Sutter Lakeside.”