• From left: Sandy Snyder, Chair of the WPLFF; Karen Brigode; Karen’s great-niece, Elizabeth, with her great-great-niece, Iris Brigode; Karen’s nephew, Nicholas Brigode; and Lisa Richard, from the WPLFF.
    From left: Sandy Snyder, Chair of the WPLFF; Karen Brigode; Karen’s great-niece, Elizabeth, with her great-great-niece, Iris Brigode; Karen’s nephew, Nicholas Brigode; and Lisa Richard, from the WPLFF.

    For the second year in a row, Karen M. Brigode has generously donated $5,300 to the Way Public Library Foundation & Friends in support of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

    This impactful program provides free books to children in Wood County from birth to age five, helping foster a lifelong love of reading during the earliest years of development.

    Brigode’s gift was made in loving memory of …