The first babies born this year in the Tri-county area were:
Manuel De Jesus at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital at 12:06 a.m. New Year’s Day.
Kaiden Kal-El Sanders was born about 4-and-a-half hours later at Community Hospital Of The Monterey Peninsula.
And….Amari Patel Gonzalez was born at 11:26 a.m. at Dominican Hospital.
