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Community Gardens

Police Chief Schimanski and Councillor
Kalashnikov inspecting their grow-op.

Community gardens are parcels of land divided into small plots for local residents to grow their own fruit, vegetables and other kinds of plants, benefiting everyone by creating safe and healthy recreational activity. Bullpen Island Community Gardens operate under Parks & Recreation Division on a 2 acre lot donated for the program by Councillor Evgeni Kalashnikov.

Community Gardens make an annual profit of about $900,000, of which two thirds is channeled back to the community, supporting things like the library, local school, homeless shelter, food bank, road maintenance, election campaigns, guerilla warfare in Uzbekistan, and Bullpen Island Arrrt Centre.

Currently over thirty families take part in the program.

Alf Ventress Public Library

Alf Ventress Public Library, established in 1961, is located right next to the Town Hall, on Central Avenue. The library is funded in part by the Bullpen Island Community Gardens, and currently has 133 books available for loaning.

Library Card applicants must be Canadian citizens in good standing, at least 21 years old, must have a valid driver's license and a hunting license. At least two references from respected Bullpen Island residents is required.

Here's our top 20 most loaned books as of 2010:

How to Rebuild and Modify Rochester Quadrajet Carburetors by Cliff Ruggles
Bagpipe Sheet Music Book with Finger Positions Volume 3 by Michael Hamilton
Llama for Lunch by Lydia Laube
Chainsaw Carving a Bear by Jamie Doeren
Sounds from the Bullpen by Howard Munce
Goats: Small-scale Herding for Pleasure And Profit by Sue Weaver
Fundamentals of Cheese Science by Patrick F. Fox
Turbocharging Performance Handbook by Jeff Hartman
Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them by Roger Welsch
Radio Frequency Plasma Spark Plug Development and Engine Testing: Design of a quarter-wave coaxial cavity resonator for use as an ignition source for an internal combustion engine by Dustin McIntyre

50 Things to do With a Llama by M. Brandon James
The Llama Sutra: Getting Wild in the Wild Kingdom by Ward Calhoun
Becoming a Web Designer Skilled in the Ancient Art of Llama Herding by Aaron Wester
So, You Share Your Life With A Llama, What Now? by Susan Peterson
Natural Neighbours: Selected Mammals of Saskatchewan by Resource Management and Saskatchewan Environment
Culture Shock! Finland: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette by Deborah Swallow
The Bullpen: Gateway to the State Prison by Julio Lao
Safety Pins in 3-D by Thelma Lee
The 2009 World Market Forecasts for Imported Centrifugal Cream Separators by Icon Group
Nuclear War: What's In It For You? by Ground Zero

Bullpen Island Arrrt Centre

The Bullpen Island Arrrt Centre has had a long history within our community. Originally an opera house, the building was completed in 1899 and is still going strong. Displeased by the low quality performers, the villagers torched it twice in the early 1900s. Today it is a thriving art facility focusing on pirate arts, crafts and other creative opportunities, plundering and keel-hauling.

The Bartholomew Roberts Gallery is located on the second floor of the Arrrt Centre and features local and regional pirate art exhibitions. Admission is $3 for adults, $25 for kids. Free admission on September 19th.