OGDENSBURG -- Bishop Terry R. LaValley will present the Bishop Edgar P. Wadhams Award for Distinguished Service to Henry and Huguette Domingos of Potsdam.

They will receive the award at a lunch at LaValley’s on Sept. 11.

LaValley said they are being honored for “the quality and length of their service to the church.”

“Hank and Huguette Domingos have been a wonderful model for married couples. This faith-filled couple has grown together in love and has reached out to serve their brothers and sisters in the church,” Lavalley said.

Hank Huguette teaches in the Formation for Ministry Program, is a member of the Formation for Ministry Advisory Board, brings communion to the sick and homebound, and lectors at Mass, all with the constant support and encouragement of his wife, according to LaValley.

“Huguette and Hank were instrumental in founding the Serra Club in our diocese to promote and support vocations to the priesthood and religious life, and are outstanding examples of ‘living stones’ who have built up the church by their good example, piety, generous service and active participation in the life of their parish,” LaValley said in a prepared statement.

Bishop Paul Loverde, the eleventh bishop of Ogdensburg, created the award in 1996 to recognize exceptional service to the Diocese of Ogdensburg by people of the North Country.

Past recipients include father Richard Siepka (former rector of Wadhams Hall Seminary), monsignor Lawrence M. Deno (former superintendent of Catholic schools), Mary Lou Kilian (editor of the North Country Catholic), monsignor Robert Giroux (former vicar general), Gerald Irwin (former professor at Wadhams Hall and peritus for the Diocesan tribunal), Kathryn Healy (chaplain, St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center), A. B. DeGrandpre (former knight of the holy sepulcher, friend and benefactor of St. John’s Academy, Mount Assumption Institute and Seton Catholic Central School), Clyde A. Lewis Sr. (knight of Malta, formation of Bishop’s Heritage Circle) and Thomas and Claudia Sanders (pre-cana directors and hosts in the international student program at Seton Catholic High School), according to LaValley.