Recipients of the annual Linda Lee Martins Community Health Hero Awards will be honored as a special meeting 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 12.

The Island County Board of Health join with the Community Health Advisory Board at the Pacific Rim Institute, 180 Parker Road in Coupeville for the award ceremony that is open to the public.

Past recipients, who are selected from a pool nominated by the community, have been Island County residents, organizations and businesses.

The award is named in honor of the late Linda Lee Martens and began in 2000. She died in 2001 from cancer.

Martens has been described as “an ordinary person with an extraordinary love for others.”

A longtime community activist, Martens served as the executive secretary of the Health Department and as president of Soroptimist International and was involved in numerous community service activities at the local and national level.