breast cancer awareness month

Breast Cancer Awareness Month pink ribbon symbolOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and NASCAR is headed to Charlotte Motor Speedway this upcoming weekend, with the Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Bank of America 500 and Dollar General 300 Miles of Courage; and the NASCAR Truck Series will have its Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s Smith’s 350.

Please take a quick moment, even if you’re not a NASCAR fan, to peruse this quick article.

October, being breast cancer awareness month means is that this month various organizations concentrate on getting the message out in more aggressive campaigns. The goal is to get people to think about it and maybe get some people to help out a little bit in the battle against this insidious evil.

Breast cancer strikes 1 in 8 women.

During the upcoming NASCAR events, the NASCAR Sprint Cup, NASCAR Nationwide and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series vehicles will have pink accents added to their race vehicles.

·         Race cars and trucks will carry a NASCAR Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon logo on A-posts

·         NASCAR officials will wear pink lanyards and gloves in the garage area throughout the weekend

·         NASCAR officials’ fire suits will carry NASCAR Breast Cancer Awareness patches

·         NASCAR partner Mechanix Wear will provide pink gloves that will later be signed by drivers to auction off on the NASCAR Unites website (NASCAR.COM/Unites)

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month pink ribbon symbol- Five is a Lifetime channel original movie that links a series of five short films together, demonstrating with drama and humor, the impact that breast cancer can have on people, their families and their friends.

This movie airs in October because it is Breast Cancer Awareness month.

What’s unique about this movie is that with the five segments, come five difference directors… one for each segment.

The directors are Jennifer Aniston, Patty Jenkins, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore & Penelope Spheeris.

The cast includes

  • Ginnifer Goodwin (He’s Just Not That Into You; TV: Big Love, Once Upon A Time),
  • Lyndsy Fonseca (The Ward, TV: Nikita, How I Met Your Mother),
  • Rosario Dawson (Zookeeper, Unstoppable),
  • Patricia Clarkson (Easy A, TV: Six Feet Under),
  • Jennifer Morrison (House, Once Upon A Time),
  • Josh Dallas (Thor, TV: Once Upon A Time),
  • Josh Holloway (Stay Cool; TV: Lost),
  • Jeffrey Tambor (Paul, TV: Arrested Development),
  • Jenifer Lewis (Hereafter),
  • Xander Berkeley (rumored)(Faster, Kick-Ass, ),
  • Kathy Najimy (voice work in Wall-E, TV: King of the Hill) and many more.

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Five is airing on Lifetime, Monday, October 10th at 9 p.m. ET. If you can’t catch it on Monday, it also airs Tue Oct 11 at 1 AM and Sat Oct 15 at 8 PM.

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