Stovall honored for academic achievement

Andrew Stovall was named Lake Pend Oreille High School's Elks Student of the Month for May.

To be selected as an Elks student of the month, students must meet guidelines for character, citizenship, service, scholarship and leadership.

The Elks actively seek to reward youth through many different programs including scholarship awards, Hoop Shoot tournaments, dictionary donations to third graders, drug awareness programs and many other activities and programs.

Sandpoint Elks Lodge award thousands of dollars in scholarships and local students also received an additional money in state and national Elk scholarships. The Elks are the third largest awarder of scholarships in the county and several students have received large scholarships from the state and national level of Elks.

Andrew Stovall was named Lake Pend Oreille High School's Elks Student of the Month for May.

The son of Kara Suksdorf and Jerry Stovall, Andrew has been employed at Sandpoint Cinemas for two years while attending school and maintaining a 3.0 GPA and 100% attendance.

He participated in school fund-raising projects such as selling tickets for the wood raffle, volunteering at the haunted house and the food bank, and assisting in the greenhouse.

Amongst Andrew's accolades are an Adobe Photoshop certification and represented the school at a Lake Pend Oreille School Board meeting about Lake Pend Oreille High School.

Andrew was nominated and accepted into an online summer program through Harvard University. He will be taking pre-law, coding and politics.

He graduated in June and intends on pursuing a career in law enforcement.