(New Year’s babies)…The first to arrive locally in 2020.

They were in no hurry to arrive. The babies waited until the sun was up. The first baby of the New Year was born in Brawley. Pioneers Memorial Hospital says Jesus Villalobos and Edith Martinez welcomed their baby girl, Juleana Vidal Villalobos, into the world at 7:25 Wednesday morning. El Centro Regional Medical Center says their first baby of the New Year was a boy, Ezekiel Rey Ortiz Rios. He was born at 12:37 Wednesday afternoon. The baby was born to his proud parents, Leslie Orta Rios and her husband Michael.