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ABBOTSFORD T RIBUNE PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1951
Easter 1951 earliest until year 2008
This year Easter comes on March 25, which will be the earliest observance of the holiday in the second half of the 20th century.
The world will have to wait until the year 2008 to celebrate it earlier. That year it will be on March 23, according to computations by the Alder Planetarium and Astronomical Museum, Chicago. The last time it was on March 23 was in 1913.
Easter can be as early as March 22 and as late as April 25, a variation of 35 days. The last time it was on March 22 was in 1818. It will next be that early in 2285. It fell on April 25 in 1943; it will not do so again until 2038.
The methods of fixing the time of Easter is complicated and dates back to 325 A.D. In that year the Council of the Christian Churches met in Nicea (Nice) in Asia Minor. Besides setting forth the Nicene creed, a summary of the belief in the divinity of Christ, the councillors decided that Easter should be the first Sunday after the paschal full moon which occurs upon, or next after, March 21, the vernal equinox.
Travel was the reason for this decision. In early times Easter was a day of great celebration in big cities and pilgrims journeyed on foot or in crude transports to take part. They needed moonlight to help them find their way at night, so the reckoning of the Easter date was worked out for their convenience.
If the paschal full moon falls on a Sunday, Easter is observed the following Sunday. The paschal moon is the 14th day of a lunar month reckoned according to an ancient ecclesiastical computation, not an astronomical one.
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1981
TIF district is nearing reality
The Abbotsford Planning Commission met last week to collect more information on the city’s proposal to create a Tax Incremental Finance district for public works projects, and will meet again after Easter to draw up boundaries and solidify a list of possible projects. The city will be able to tell after an April 3 annexation hearing just what areas might be included in the proposed TIF district. The annexation process give landowners contiguous to the city limits a chance to be included within municipal and TIF boundaries.
“The city is not soliciting annexations,” according to Richard E. Shurbert, a financial consultant with Miller and Schroeder Municipals, Inc., Minneapolis, “but there are some landowners who might see an advantage in developing their land via this route.”
Shurbert, who has been the city’s advisor during the TIF planning stages, further clarified the route during his presentation to the group.
The creation of a TIF district will enable the city to finance public works projects with tax money collected from new private developments within the district boundaries. One of the few stipulations laid down by the state for the creation of such districts is that 25 percent of the included land be suitable for industrial development or rehabilitation, or be “blighted.” Another is that land in the TIF district comprise no more than five percent of the city’s equalized valuation.
The TIF district is a five-year proposal. The city compile a list of possible projects and do any or all of the in the allotted period of time.
