For the second year running, 'Mason' was the most popular name for Blanchard Valley Hospital (Bluffton campus) born boys. Of the over 200 names provided to the Icon by BVH, Bluffton OB Department, 'Mason' appeared four times, more than any other name, boy or girl.
For the rest of the boys, the following names appeared more than once:
Abram Aidan Asher Carter Connor James
Jase Jaxson/Jaxon Joel Kaleb Landon Levi Logan/Login Oliver
Ryker Samual Thomas William Wyatt
For girls, there was no clear front runner among the first names. 'Savannah' appeared on our list three times. The names that appeared twice were:
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.
From time to time The Ada Icon posts a photo - really, just part of a photo of a familiar Ada image. Here's the first quiz for 2013. How well do you know Ada? For the answer check the photo below.
You'll find it at the Ada Public Library - children's section.
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.
The holiday season is sliding to an end and things will get back to normal any minute now. But until then, you can embrace one last tradition, one last thing to bind us to each other as we look ahead to the new year.
How about we drop something?
The most famous drop in the United States is the dropping of the New Year's ball in Times Square, New York City. Thousands gather to watch the ball make its one-minute descent, arriving exactly at midnight.
