Mike Mills & the 17th Street crew will be broadcast nationally on the TODAY show around 8 am central time Thursday, June 24. Mike will do a cooking demonstration featuring his famous baby back ribs and baked beans. The segment will be filmed in Memphis, a city near and dear to Mills's heart.
"Lots of great things have happened to me in Memphis," said Mills. "I'm there every year for Memphis in May and it's a real thrill to go back and be part of this show with Al Roker. He's a fine barbecue man himself, so for him to choose to work with us is a real honor."
Al Roker, the weather anchor for NBC’s “Today,” will be broadcasting from Memphis where he will make donations to a nonprofit organization as part of the annual “Lend a Hand Today” trip.
The organization receiving the donations won’t be announced until the broadcast. The gift will be a surprise so officials with charitable organizations should be on the lookout for a Penske truck.
That’s how the donated items arrive.
“When we started this nine years ago, we donated $50,000 worth of items over five cities the first five days,” Roker said. “This year, we’ve got more than $3.2 million in donations.”
The donated items vary from city to city.
“We tailor it to each individual charity,” Roker said. “We find out what they need through a fairly surreptitious means. We then go out and solicit those donations from vendors. We have kind of an overarching producer who works the phones and tries to get what those people need, whether it is office supplies, garden supplies, kids clothing or sporting goods. It runs the gamut, depending upon what the charity does.”
The segment can be viewed on the internet after the show has broadcast.
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Mike Mills & the 17th Street crew will be broadcast nationally on the TODAY show around 8 am central time Thursday, June 24. Mike will do a cooking demonstration featuring his famous baby back ribs and baked beans. The segment will be filmed in Memphis, a city near and dear to Mills's heart.
"Lots of great things have happened to me in Memphis," said Mills. "I'm there every year for Memphis in May and it's a real thrill to go back and be part of this show with Al Roker. He's a fine barbecue man himself, so for him to choose to work with us is a real honor."
Al Roker, the weather anchor for NBC’s “Today,” will be broadcasting from Memphis where he will make donations to a nonprofit organization as part of the annual “Lend a Hand Today” trip.
The organization receiving the donations won’t be announced until the broadcast. The gift will be a surprise so officials with charitable organizations should be on the lookout for a Penske truck.
That’s how the donated items arrive.
“When we started this nine years ago, we donated $50,000 worth of items over five cities the first five days,” Roker said. “This year, we’ve got more than $3.2 million in donations.”
The donated items vary from city to city.
“We tailor it to each individual charity,” Roker said. “We find out what they need through a fairly surreptitious means. We then go out and solicit those donations from vendors. We have kind of an overarching producer who works the phones and tries to get what those people need, whether it is office supplies, garden supplies, kids clothing or sporting goods. It runs the gamut, depending upon what the charity does.”
The segment can be viewed on the internet after the show has broadcast.
