By Associated Press - Wednesday, December 21, 2016

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) - An anonymous person has paid $4,600 to cover layaway gifts at a Walmart store in a northeast Wyoming city hit hard by a struggling oil, gas and coal industry.

Gillette store co-manager Jackline Rinehardt says the secret Santa specifically picked accounts that had toys in them.

Rinehardt tells the Gillette News Record (https://bit.ly/2hIMxgJ ) that he ended up paying off between 15 and 20 layaways.



She says a lot of people with kids in the community lost their jobs and didn’t know what they were going to do for Christmas.

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Information from: The Gillette (Wyo.) News Record, https://www.gillettenewsrecord.com

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