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Logan James

Melissa and Keith have chosen the name Logan James for their beautiful new son born at Mid-Columbia Medical Center.

1:10 p.m.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
20 inches
6 pounds, 1.9 ounces
Origin of the name Logan: Celtic
Name's original meaning: "Little hollow"

This day in history

Other interesting people born on this date:

1911 - Lucille Ball - American comedienne whose 1950's, "I Love Lucy" TV series, cast the mold for situation comedies far into the future.
1881 - Sir Alexander Fleming - Nobel Prize winning Scottish scientist whose discovery of penicillin in 1928 paved the way for antibiotic therapy for infectious disease and saved countless lives.

Other notable events
on this day in history:

1996 - NASA administrators announced primitive life-form fossils had been discovered in a 4.5 billion year old meteorite from Mars, providing the first evidence of life on another planet.
1969 - Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell made baseball history as he hit the first fair ball to sail out of Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium. His homerun measured 506 feet from home plate.
1948 - At age 17, American athlete Bob Mathias earned the title of world's greatest athlete by winning the decathlon at the Olympic Games held in London, England.


Population:

The Dalles:
11,600
U.S. population:
306,209,195

Sunrise and sunset:

Sunrise:5:55 a.m.
Sunset:8:26 p.m.

Local weather:

The Dalles high:
71° F
The Dalles low:
64° F

The nation's weather extremes:

High: 114° at Bullhead City, Ariz.
Low: 35 at Embarrass, Minn.

The day's Dow Jones close:

9,280.97

Your dollar's worth

Loaf of bread:
$2.49
Gallon of milk:
$3.85
Gallon of gasoline:
$2.80
First-class stamp:
$0.44
New car:
$21,750.00
Average new home:
$165,000.00