SEQUIM — There’s something satisfying about coupons. You only save a few cents, or maybe a couple of bucks, with the slips of paper. But at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4760 in Sequim, the Ladies’ Auxiliary has found a whole new reason to clip.
Patricia Foster, the auxiliary president, has collected thousands of manufacturers’ discount coupons — from the Sunday editions of the Peninsula Daily News and Seattle Times — and sent them to U.S. service members at five military bases around the world.
Troops serving in Germany, Japan and Italy use the coupons to save money on food, personal care products and other groceries at their commissaries, Foster said.
Herma Hooper of Sequim is one of the dedicated collectors of coupons. She sent a supply to her grandson, who is serving on the U.S. Army base near Ansbach, Germany, and was rewarded with a photo of her 5-year-old great-granddaughter, Gwen De Han, posing with shower soap purchased with one of the scores of coupons mailed from Sequim.
Foster, for her part, wants to send more coupons, as well as “care packages” of toiletries and snacks, to more U.S. service members in Europe and Asia.
All she needs are their names and addresses, so she encourages North Olympic Peninsula residents who have loved ones overseas to phone her at the VFW post: 360-681-0434. Foster can also be reached at roadster90@olypen.com.
