Stories - USA - Sunrises, hugs keep school bus driver behind the wheel 40 years
Everything else is still and silent in the morning chill.
MURTAUGH,Twin Falls,ID,USA -Twin Falls Times-News,by Joshua Palmer -20 Sept 2005 ) :-)) Before the sunrise illuminates the South Hills above the cornfields outside of Murtaugh, Larae Curtis is already sweeping off a yellow school bus... Just after 7 a.m. when the sun is cresting the South Hills and Curtis has pitched the last cloud of dust off the steps of the bus, she buckles into the driver's seat and begins her 40th school year driving for the Murtaugh School District... Those who grew up in Murtaugh also grew up with Curtis, who has driven three generations of children to school, made sure they returned their books and waited patiently when they were sent to the principal's office. In most cases she is driving the children of some of her first riders, and in one case she is driving the grandchild of one of her first riders... But in a nation where one in three employees quit their jobs within the first year, Curtis said her reasons for staying with it for 40 years is simple: she likes the hugs and sunrises...
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