KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – This year’s recipients of the J. Fletcher and Anne Elliott Educational Scholarship, awarded earlier this month at Kelseyville High School, are seniors Nathaniel Carpenter and Victor Cacho.

Both young men have outstanding academic and athletic high school careers, each ranking high in their class.

In addition, both had exemplary athletic success through their high school years, with Carpenter playing basketball, baseball and football, and Cacho playing four years of soccer.

Carpenter is going to attend San Jose State, where he will major in political science. Cacho will attend Sacramento State, majoring in criminal justice.

This year’s award is $10,000 to each recipient.

“This scholarship will really help reduce stress on my month-end expenses, allowing me to get a meal or buy a needed textbook,” said Carpenter. “It’s a huge help not having to get more loans.”

“This will allow me to focus on schoolwork, knowing I will able to buy the textbook more easily,” Cacho said.

This scholarship foundation was originally established by the late Anne Elliott with the help of Rian Sommerfield at Nestegg Investment Consulting.

It’s expected to fund future scholarships for decades to come in memory of Elliott’s husband, J. Fletcher.