What One Bus Driver is Doing For Kids This Winter

A school bus driver in Kennewick, Washington, is helping students on his route by handing out hats and gloves ahead of the harsh winter season. 

For driver John Lunceford it began when a crying student boarded his bus. The student had waited outside in the freezing temperatures and Lunceford noticed that his exposed hands and ears were red, according to a Facebook post by Kennewick school district.

"I put my gloves on him and told him, 'It'll be OK, it'll be OK,'" said Lunceford, a U.S. Army veteran, who is in his third year of driving buses for the school district. 

After dropping the students at the school, Lunceford went to the store and bought 10 hats and 10 sets of gloves. Then, he went back to the school and tracked down the little boy. 

Lunceford found him in the library and handed him a hat and a pair of gloves. 

"I'm a grandfather, you know," Lunceford says. "No one wants a kid to suffer like that."

That was not the only set of gloves and hats Lunceford passed out. Lunceford announced in the school library that if students on his route needed hats or gloves that he would take care of them. 

"There was a little girl who said 'I don't have a hat,' and I said I'll take care of you, sweetie," Lunceford said.