L-S cheer team sponsoring a ‘Pink Out’

The Lincoln-Sudbury Competitive Cheer Team is starting a new tradition this week by sponsoring a “Pink Out” at this Friday’s football game in honor of this being the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  

This week, team members delivered Pink Out packages to each fall sports team, which included items for them to ‘wear’ with their uniforms this week (pink prewrap, shoelaces, tattoos etc.).  On Friday, they will be passing out pink beads, remembrance stickers, pink candy, pink beach balls etc. to the fans/students and have asked everyone to wear pink.  Team memberas will also be collecting spare change to donate to Susan G. Komen Passionately Pink For The Cure.  They have hung signs/banners etc. at the school this week as well.

Also, on Friday, Oct. 5, after the L-S Warriors’ football game, the L-S Invisible Children club is hosting a ‘Pink Out’ dance in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. L-S students attending the dance are encouraged to wear as much pink as possible to show support. Invisible Children, the group devoted to raising awareness of atrocities by the Ugandan militant Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), carried out the Kony 2012 campaign earlier this year to highlight the crimes of warlord Joseph Kony.

“Dances are a really good way to raise money,” noted club member and L-S junior Taylor Galland. “I’m hoping [the Pink Out] is a big success because it is for a really good cause. [The goal] of the dance is to make people more knowledgeable about this issue.”

Money raised at the event will be donated to the Invisible Children organization, which will use the donation to assist with their efforts to rebuild Uganda, which has been savaged by such human rights abuses as sexual slavery and the use of child soldiers by the LRA .

Students can buy tickets for $5 during lunch block on Thursday and Friday, or for $7 at the door. The dance will go from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.