Chef to host Locks of Love snip
Published: February 20, 2006
One minute, Chef Sam Poley of Restaurant Starlu in Durham was thinking how cool it was that “Today Show” news anchor Ann Curry was donating her hair to charity, just as he had planned to do.
Then, a few days and several phone calls later, he found himself agreeing to host a live remote of “The Today Show” on March 1 and serve up breakfast for 600 people.
The idea is to show a crowd of people getting their hair snipped simultaneously for the charity Locks of Love, a nonprofit that provides hairpieces to children who suffer from medical hair loss. Curry will lead the way in Rockefeller Plaza. Poley’s goal is to get 300 people to donate hair at the Durham snipfest (each can bring a friend to do the snipping).
To participate, you must register in advance and be at the restaurant by 6:30 a.m. on March 1. Call 489-1500 to register.
Locks of Love requires a ponytail or braid that is at least 10 inches long for its hairpieces. But Poley says if you have at least 6 inches of hair to spare, you can still donate to the cause for this event. Colored or permed (but not bleached) natural hair is OK, but no weaves, extensions or other synthetic hair.
Poley has been growing out what he describes as his “chestnut brown hair, unfortunately shot through with some strands of silvery gray” for a while now. Its length ranges from 8 to 15 inches.
The chef planned to donate in July, a month before he will become a dad. “I didn’t want to look like the guy with the 1971 Chevy out back,” he says. But he moved up the date after talking with an NBC producer, who just happened to graduate from Duke University and pushed the idea of a remote pegged to NBC’s March 1 event.
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