THE VILLAGE COMMISSION Since St. Peters became incorporated as a village in 1953, there have been numerous volunteers working toward the organizing, implementing of new ideas and programs, and overall well being of the community. The minute books for the St. Peters Bay Village Commission reflect the involvement the Commission had in the establishment of the rink, the various buildings that the fire hall and library have been located in over the years, and the , which was originally referred to as the ' and Area." The Commission obtained people to look after light bulbs for the streetlights in the 1950s, oversaw the building of a new bridge in St. Peters in the 1960s, witnessed the inauguration of the new dial system in the 1970s, and had new Seniors Units built on the north shore of the Bay by the early 1980s. Sod turning ceremony for the building of the new Seniors Units. Photo courtesy of Hubert Maclsaac . (Left to Right) Wilbur MacDonald , Frank Milligan , Roddie Pratt, Leo Rossiter , and Hubert Maclsaac . One interesting fact is that in February of 1964, correspondence was read pertaining to the possibility of a to be erected at the North Shore . Over thirty years later, this became a reality with the announcement of the to be opened in Greenwich in July of 2000. 143