Someone pays off layaway gifts in Gillette

GILLETTE (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 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.