This week's Ada Icon poll asks the question, "Should the United States stop producing the penny?" We pose the question since Canada has decided to quit producing its penny. We invite viewers to provide opinions by voting in the current Icon poll.
So, you think you know Ada! Okay, where have you enjoyed the music of these two long-time Ada musicians? We don't know the tune they are playing, but from their perch, they've watched you for a very long time.
By the way, the violinist is a lefty!
Check out the answer by opening the photo at the bottom of this story.
The internet is ripe with many cool things. We at the Icon thought this was pretty neat.
Brandon Martin-Anderson created a map that contains a dot for every single person counted in the last U.S. and Canadian censuses. That means 341,817,095 dots.
According to the site, he wanted "an image of human settlement patterns unmediated by proxies like city boundaries, arterial roads, state lines, etc." So he wrote a computer program and fed in the information from the census.
The Ada Icon encourages Facebook fans interested in all the latest information about the local community to consider liking the Ada Icon Facebook site and its sister publication of the Bluffton icon.
The Ada Icon site was recently launched and continues to grow weekly. It currently has 80 followers. The Bluffton Icon site is older and has 821 followers.
Both sites provide worthwhile news updates for the communities they serve.
