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Jaymiee Joyce

Sarah has chosen the name Jaymiee Joyce for her beautiful new daughter born at Mid-Columbia Medical Center.

8:55 a.m.
Monday, August 24, 2009
19 3/4 inches
7 pounds, 11.4 ounces

This day in history

Other interesting people born on this date:

1960 - Cal Ripken, Jr. - The iron-man of baseball. Baltimore Orioles shortstop who holds the record for the most consecutive games played.
1890 - Duke Kahanamoku - Hawaiian swimming legend who won five Olympic medals, including three gold in three Olympics over a 12 year period.
1880 - Joshua Lionel Cowen - American inventor of the electric toy train and founder of the Lionel Company.

Other notable events
on this day in history:

1932 - Amelia Earhart left Los Angeles on the first transcontinental nonstop flight by a woman. She landed 19 hours later, 2600 miles away in Newark, New Jersey.
1891 - Thomas Edison received one of his more than 1,000 patents, this one for the motion picture camera.
1814 - British forces captured Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol, White House and other government buildings in revenge for earlier burnings of Canadian government buildings by U.S. troops.


Population:

The Dalles:
11,600
U.S. population:
306,280,979

Sunrise and sunset:

Sunrise:6:17 a.m.
Sunset:7:56 p.m.

Local weather:

The Dalles high:
89° F
The Dalles low:
48° F

The nation's weather extremes:

High: 110° at Ocotillo Wells, California
Low: 24 at Seneca, Ore.

The day's Dow Jones close:

9,505.96

Your dollar's worth

Loaf of bread:
$2.49
Gallon of milk:
$3.85
Gallon of gasoline:
$2.91
First-class stamp:
$0.44
New car:
$21,750.00
Average new home:
$165,000.00