The 'Earliest Easter Sunday' In Our Lifetimes

Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrews used to identify passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman based calendar.

This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives. And only the most elderly of
our population have ever seen it this early. And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier. Thus:

1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so unless you're 95 or older you were not around then).

2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than
this year.

SALISBURY CITY COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA

MARCH 24, 2008 6:00 p.m.

City/County Government Office Building Room 301

6:00 p.m. CONVENE – LORD’S PRAYER – PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

6:04 p.m. ADOPTION OF AGENDA

6:06 p.m. CONSENT AGENDA

• March 10, 2008 Minutes

• March 17, 2008 Special Meeting Minutes

• Resolution No. 1641 - approving lease agreement between the City of Salisbury and the Chamber of Commerce for the Salisbury Dogwood Festival

• Resolution No. 1642 - approving lease agreement between the City of Salisbury and the American Diabetes Association for the Salisbury Dogwood Festival

• Resolution No. 1643 - approving lease agreement between the City of Salisbury and Crosby Real Estate Associates (Residences at Rivers Edge, LLC) for the placement of a temporary sales trailer

• Resolution No. 1644 - accepting donation for expenses associated with the All America City application process

• Resolution No. 1645 - accepting “Smooth Operator” grant funds

• Resolution No. 1646 - accepting Operation TALON grant funds

6:15 p.m. AWARD OF BIDS

6:25 p.m. PUBLIC HEARING – ORDINANCE (public comments – no vote taken)

• Ordinance No. 2047 – adoption of 2006 State Fire Prevention Code

6:45 p.m. PRESENTATION (public comments – no vote taken)

• Ordinance No. 2048 – amending the Zoning Code, Title 17, to establish regulation and operational standards for adult entertainment businesses

• Ordinance No. 2049 – amending Chapter 5.08 of the Salisbury Municipal Code to enact additional regulation of adult entertainment businesses and to make the terminology and definitions consistent with those employed in Title 17 of the Code

ORDINANCE – City Attorney Paul Wilber

• Ordinance No. 2050 - 1st reading – FY08 budget amendment appropriating funds for the General Fund, Water Fund, Sewer Fund, Marina Fund and Parking Authority Fund budgets

7:30 p.m. PUBLIC COMMENTS

7:45 p.m. ADJOURN

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Happy Easter Everyone

Today is a double celebration in the Albero Home. Not only did we get to pull out the old Easter Basket and fill it with all kinds of crap that will probably harm our child, it happens to be my Birthday as well.

Yes, I'm another year closer to my Wife's age, (LOL). So we not only get to celebrate Easter, we're doing so with my favorite desert, Death By Chocolate! The diet gets broken today, too bad, too sad!

Oh, by the way. For those of you who've been wondering why the Posts have somewhat slowed down yesterday and yes, even today. Twice a year I receive a Lamp Order from one of the Lamp Manufacturers I manufacture for. That order is in and needs to be filled A.S.A.P.. Normally I'd tell someone to bite me but they're in such desperate need, they're willing to pay a premium to get it done.

That being said, we're busting our tails getting it done and that means working on my Birthday and Easter to do so. I won't say what kind of income it brings in but I will say this order will cover our overhead for at least 6 years. Yeah, it's worth coming out of full retirement twice a year for an order like this one.

So if you're not happy with the lack of Posts I've been putting up today and yesterday, money still talks in the Albero household.

The Delmar Rt. 54 Railroad Crossing Needs To Be Fixed!

For far too long I have been traveling over these tracks on a regular basis and there isn't a single time we do go over these tracks and it isn't an experience.

First of all, the situation with this crossing is the fact that the road is so uneven, it's simply tearing vehicles apart. It doesn't matter what speed your traveling, it's a hazard. Now the smaller the vehicle you use, the worse it seems to be.

Here's the funny part. You get to watch all these Rednecks in their 4x4 pickumup trucks, (I own 3) approaching the tracks and they slow down to like 2 mph and just creep over those tracks like they're driving over eggs!

Talk about a bunch of pansies! They're 4x4 trucks, you Idiots! Now that I'm done playing with the jacked up 4x4 Rednecks, it truly is a bad situation and considering they're fixed the Naylor Mill Road crossing, it's high time they fix the Delmar crossing as well.

Oh, I should add. If you're on of those Rednecks that acts like a pansy crossing those Rail Road Tracks like you were tip toeing through the tulips and someone behind you is honking and laughing at you, that would be me.

The roughness of this crossing is far overdue for repairs and both the Mayor of Delmar Maryland and Delaware need to get together and iron this problem out. The second photo should clearly show just how bad it is to cross this thing. The smaller vehicles can't take it any more and they might as well lower the speed limit to 2 mph at this location.

How sad is it when two Towns that know this situation is that bad that they do nothing about it? It was done at Naylor Mill, they need to fix this situation right away because they're going to get multiple lawsuits for repairs for front end alignments.

Today's Wildlife Photo

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