Trevor D. Harvey
Trevor Harvey and his family survived the flames and smoke of a house fire. Windows had to be shattered to open a way for escape.
They lost everything and started over. “It was horrific. It impacted me, my mom and sisters because we didn’t know what would happen.” He attended the Helen Payne Day Nursery. The young man came of age in the late 70’s and 80’s when Newtown’s business district was bustling with stores such as Can’s, Jenkins’s and Moore’s Grocers, Joe’s Bicycle Shop and Humphries Drugstore.
In its heyday, there were close to 100 shops along what is now known as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way. Harvey hopes the business corridor will thrive again. He put college on hold to manage a company, and then later sent a strong message to his children and mentees by becoming a college graduate. Harvey is president of the Sarasota NAACP and area director for the Florida State Conference overseeing seven NAACP branches. “I started out with a desire to make a difference in the community.”
