Melvina St Louis, the wife of Orville St. Louis, came to Point Fortin as a young girl in the 1920`s, from Tunapuna, with her sister, Mrs Mc Neish, whose husband was a Turner working with the Oil Company. ( That building obliquely opposite Choy`s was owned by him.)

Tanty  Melvie, as she was affectionately known, soon left her sister`s and became a boarder for the workers, who were separated from their families. This Breakfast Shed was at the Perseverance Hall until it was moved to Churchill Road, where its services are still offered as part of the School Feeding Programme.

 It was through the good graces of the Managing Director at the time, Mr. Madden, in spite of the protestations of Mr. Mathison, a senior Accountant with the Company, that she managed to obtain funding for the project. She soon became a supporter of the Birth Control Movement, through Dr. Wright, one of Shell`s doctors at the time, the first advocate of birth control in Trinidad.

 She was also one of the founding members of the Village Council.  It was as a result of a visit by the then President Sir Ellis Clarke, that her work became recognised nationally and she was awarded an Order of Merit for outstanding service to the Point Fortin Community.