WOODLAND PARK • Samuel Faux, a graduating Woodland Park High School senior, has been named as the recipient of the annual Nick Naples “Carpe Diem Scholarship.”
The $5,000 scholarship was established five years ago to honor and celebrate the memory of our son, Nick, who along with his two friends and fellow Scouts were tragically killed coming home from Scout camp in Wyoming on June 30, 2012.
Donny Rickert, Nick’s Scoutmaster described Nick as a young man possessed with magnetism a force that was impossible not to be attracted to.
Nick empowered everyone around him to experience life to the fullest and he found 24/7/365 schedule way too restrictive. Nick never had a bad day and you never saw Nick without a smile on his face. No matter what was going on, Nick would be having the time of his life and there was nothing he would rather be doing at that moment, at that very place, with those exact people.