Holt Academy nears completion

HOLT — Trina Trimm and her husband Dave, a former law enforcement officer who developed the St. Lucie County school resource officer program, aren’t the sort of retirees who kick back for a well-earned rest.

Soon after their arrival in Holt, they opened the Cozy Corner Grill on U.S. 90. Trina Trimm’s family had owned a restaurant in her native Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The popularity of the restaurant, often a focal point of Holt social life, inspired another project: a combination day care, preschool and community learning center.

“We realized there was no preschool anywhere in the area,” Trimm said. “On a placemat at the Cozy Corner I drew what would be the ideal child care and preschool. Before I knew it, my scratching on a placemat was being built.”

Holt Academy is nearing completion on more than two acres of land a half-mile west of the restaurant. It will revive the Holt Gophers, the team mascot for the long-shuttered Holt School.

Learn more about the academy and about an award Trimm won for her Country Kids children's book in the Saturday edition of the Crestview News Bulletin

HOLT ACADEMY

• Holt Academy will be open soon. For information call (850) 305-6349 or e-mail Trina@HoltAcademy.com. Go Gophers!