Debra Michelle Newton and William Smith, Grain Valley, Mo., announce the birth of a daughter, Mishelle Marie Smith, on June 8, 2000 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

She weighed 9 pounds 4 ounces and measured 21.5 inches long.

Maternal grandparents are Duane and Helen Newton, Tonganoxie, and maternal great-grandparents are Tom and Irma Elmer, DeSoto.