National Geographic Channel Joins Forces With Ridley and Tony Scott To Produce Author Bill O’Reilly’s Best-Selling Book ‘Killing Lincoln’; Just Announced: Mike Rowe Joins Project
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2012 — National Geographic Channel President Howard T. Owens announced today that the network has partnered with Tony and Ridley Scott to produce the two-hour documentary of Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever, Bill O’Reilly’s New York Times best-selling book with co-author Martin Dugard. Media personality Mike Rowe is also on board to be part of the project. Read More...
The AED Foundation is pleased to announce that in 2012 The mikeroweWORKS Foundation will award tools scholarships to two students at each AED Affiliated technical school. Fifty-two equipment technology students will each receive a $1,000 tools scholarship; the total amount of scholarships to be awarded is $52,000. Read More...
Skilled labor is vital to America’s economy, but there just aren’t enough trained workers. Careers as welders, construction workers, electricians, plumbers, mechanics, machinists, and many other types of skilled laborers can rewarding, respectable and well-paying jobs. Skilled labor is vital to America’s economy, but there just aren’t enough trained workers. Careers as welders, construction workers, electricians, plumbers, mechanics, machinists, and many other types of skilled laborers can rewarding, respectable and well-paying jobs. Read More...
Driving a garbage truck is a dirty job, but as the saying goes, someone’s got to do it. Laura Deland of Marysville said she chooses to do with a smile.
Her chatty, upbeat nature will be on display across the country tonight, when Deland, and specifically her skill at backing up her trailer of trash at the Ostrom Road landfill five times a day, is the feature of a segment on the popular Discovery Channel show “Dirty Jobs.”
“I totally walked them through the whole routine I do,” said Deland, 45, who filmed the segment over an otherwise typical day more than a year ago. “I’m not one of the dirty ones pushing the trash around, but once in a while stuff’s in the trailer and I have to sweep it out.”
The segment focused mostly on the tipper, the machinery at the landfill that Deland and other Recology Yuba-Sutter drivers back their trailers into and then manipulate to put those trailers nearly perpendicular to the ground to dump out 47,000 to 50,000 tons of trash at a time.
As typical for “Dirty Jobs,” Deland showed host Mike Rowe how to do it himself when the segment was filmed in October 2010.
“He did great,” she said. “Well, he couldn’t back the truck up. I know he was amazed with what I can do.”
Though she said Rowe was a delightful trainee, and described the entire film crew as great people, Deland said at first she was ambivalent about the spotlight.
When she arrived at the landfill that day and spotted the crew, she said, she tried at first to hide her truck and trailer and let another driver be the focus. Problem was, garbage trucks and trailers that top out at about 40 tons aren’t easy to hide.
“They said, ‘you’re the one,’” once they spotted her, she said. But she might have been a good choice anyhow; Deland said she is a lover of the open road who enjoys her job, down to honking at coyotes stalking newborn calves along Ostrom Road. “It’s not boring if you like what you’re doing,” she said.
While the crew was filming, Deland said, she was struck by how much footage they got for what’ll be less than 30 minutes of the show.
She said if viewers take anything away, other than just how dirty her job is, of course, she hopes it’s to consider how much of what she dumps could actually be recycled and avoid the landfill altogether.
Phil Graham, general manager at Recology Ostrom Road, said the show is likely to get a lot of eyeballs from his workplace.
“We’re trying to show hard working people try and help divert trash and recycle more,” he said. “This validates what they’re doing every day.”
Deland said through Facebook and email, she has told tons of people about her pending stardom, though she is still curious on how it comes out.
No viewing party, though: Tuesday’s a work night.
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By Michael Dumas, Press-Register
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MOBILE, Alabama — A charismatic Mobile barber and one of the city’s secret Mardi Gras krewes will be featured on episodes of the Discovery Channel program “Dirty Jobs” over the next two weeks, starting at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
In June of last year, the show’s host, Mike Rowe, was in Mobile filming a series of commercials for the job initiative Go Build Alabama, spotlighting the need for skilled tradesmen to replace an aging workforce in Alabama and beyond. And while Rowe was in town for that purpose, he and his “Dirty Jobs” crew went around the bay area filming spots to be featured on the show, which has filmed almost 300 episodes since its creation. Read More...
A Dirty Jobs viewer is inspired to start his own paint recycling business.
By Josh Shannon
ON THE JOB
Ceil Whig
How did you get your start?
I was actually watching an episode of “Dirty Jobs” where (host) Mike Rowe went out to Oregon and visited a place where they recycled the paint. I was sitting on the couch, there were a couple feet of snow outside, and I said to my wife, “You know, we can do this. If there’s paint there, there’s paint here.” We did it out of our home for a year, and then Cecil County, when I called them, said they needed our services. Read More...
Mike Rowe sometimes receives letters from fans who don’t think he gets as dirty as he used to on “Dirty Jobs” (Tue., 9 p.m. EST on Discovery). To immediately prove his detractors wrong, he chose to mention this after emerging from a water softening base at the Moorhead water treatment plant, covered in all sorts of disgusting matter. Read More...
