'Brought The Community Together:' Chatham Hero Envisioned Helping

CHATHAM, NJ—When times are tough, heroes emerge. We all know someone who's making a difference right now as we live through unprecedented and changing times.

Here at Patch, we've launched an initiative to help recognize these heroes making a difference in their communities. Together with Ring, we're working to let all your neighbors know about these outstanding people and their stories.

This submission comes from Peggy Melvin, who nominated Karen Brodsky of Chatham:

Name: Karen Brodsky, and Friends of the Library volunteers

State: NJ

Home town: Chatham

Hero's job: Other

If other, job: Librarian

Relationship to nominee: Through the local library

Reason for recognition: She proposed the idea for a 1,000 mask challenge (we actually
made almost 6,000) actually produced

One thing to know: She created an idea that brought the community together to meet the
challenge