Metro Employee Decorates Station For Christmas
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If there were an award for the Metro employee with the most Christmas spirit, Willita Wright would surely be the front-runner.
A Metro employee for the last 37 years, Wright spends her own money to hand out toys and sweets to passengers and decorate at the station where she works. This year she handed out train whistles to children and offered baskets of candy canes at the exit gates of the Farragut West station in northwest Washington. She also decorated an employee kiosk with lights, affixed giant candy canes and ribbons to station handrails and played Christmas music. In past years Wright has displayed inflatable snowmen, polar bears and penguins.
Wright says Christmas season can be a hard time for people, and she enjoys lifting their spirits.
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