AGNEW — Community members kept packages busy at the Agnew Community Hall on Sunday for “Soldier Support Day.”
A steady stream of visitors dropped off goods to be packaged up and shipped to Sequim resident Sgt. Andrew Heydon when he returns to Iraq later this month.
Heydon will then distribute the goods to 100 other men and women in Al Asad, the area he is stationed.
“We got pretty much everything we asked for,” said Stef Gates, a firefighter and paramedic for Clallam County Fire District No. 3 and friend of Heydon and his wife, Annamarie.
Among the goods Gates asked for were fruit cups, dehydrated fruit, soft tuna packets, powdered lemonade and other soft-drink mixes, peanut-butter crackers, nuts, trail mix and other portable, nutritious sustenance.
Also needed were lip balm, eyedrops, toothbrushes and toothpaste, inexpensive pens, paper and envelopes, telephone cards, blank birthday cards and magazines that appeal to servicemen and servicewomen.
