ATLANTA--The Hawthorne Dominican sisters who serve at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home providing free care to terminally ill cancer patients will be honored April 10 by WXIA-TV, Channel 11.

For the 21st year the station has selected 11 winners of a Community Service Award given to outstanding individuals or groups in the arena of volunteer service. Those who are honored will be recognized at a black tie dinner at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta followed by a live telecast of the awards at 9 p.m.

The winners were chosen by the awards board of governors from a field of hundreds of nominations submitted by viewers after on-air promotions, according to the station. The Hawthorne Dominican nuns are being honored "for their personal and tender care of the terminally ill."

Also being honored is Katie Bashor of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception "for her tireless efforts in staffing the Central Night Shelter, which provides beds, food, showers and medical attention for Atlanta's homeless."

Other honorees are Boy Scout volunteers Josiah V. Benator and Walter Stephens, Shepherd Center supporter Sara S. Chapman, Paul James Messer, Jr., who brought the first Ronald McDonald House to Atlanta, Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center volunteer Alison McClure, Grady Hospital volunteer Lois Robinson, Susan H. Blesch, founder of Fairhaven Inn, a safehouse for victims of domestic violence, and Ann R. Greiner, who has worked with behavioral disorder and mentally challenged children for 31 years. B. Franklin Skinner is receiving the Board of Governors Award.