Welcome Baby Piper Elly Reeves

Origin of the name Piper...

English - "Pipe player".

August 17, 2009 - a day to remember

Winchester Bay high: 81° F

Winchester Bay low: 59° F

The nation's weather extremes were 114° recorded at Death Valley, California and 27° at Big Piney and Cora, Wyo.

In the financial world
	The Dow Jones closed at 9135.34
	Winchester Bay's Minimum Wage was $8.40

. . . and the prices of some big and little ticket items were

Populations:

	Winchester Bay: 242
	U.S. Population: 288806459

In the world of entertainment this week

Piper Elly shares her birthday with these other interesting people
	1786 - Davy Crockett - American legendary frontiersman, soldier, scout, Congressman, and defender of the Alamo.
	1882 - Samuel Goldwyn - Academy Award-winning movie producer and the "G" in one of the grandest movie studios of all-time, MGM.
	1893 - Mae West - Comedic actress and one of the most popular performers of her generation known for roles in early film classics "My Little Chicadee", "I'm No Angel", and others.
	1943 - Robert DeNiro - Powerful Academy Award-winning actor who starred in "Raging Bull", "The Godfather II", "Taxi Driver", "Cape Fear", and many more."

There have been some other notable events on this day in history
	1807 - Robert Fulton's famous steamboat, the Clermont, set upon its first trip up the Hudson River.
	1933 - Lou Gehrig set a major league baseball record by playing in his 1,308th straight game, his would be one of the longest standing records, standing until 1995.
	1978 - Ben Abruzzon, Larry Newman and Maxie Leroy Anderson landed their balloon, Double Eagle II, in Paris, thus completing the first successful balloon crossing of the Atlantic