5 Things: Patch Contest, Library Activities and Freeway Assistance

1. Small children and toddlers can enjoy the last of their Summer Reading Club programs with the Tumble Gym Bus and Balloon Utopia at the Poway Library this morning at 10:30 a.m.

2. Kids can live out The Hunger Games at the Poway Library today. Games based off the popular young adult trilogy will begin at 4 p.m. as part of the library's Summer Reading Club program.

3. Got a thing for monkeying around? Patch is giving away a family four-pack of tickets to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Click the link above and leave a comment by 6 p.m. PST on Thursday, Aug. 1. to enter!

4. If you haven't heard yet, San Diego offers a Freeway Service Patrol (for those days when you just forgot to fill up or your radiator overheats). Learn more about the free service by clicking the link above.

5. Put away your Kindles and e-readers for 24 hours. Today is Paperback Books Day, an occasion to celebrate the experience of reading non-electronically. Which paperback will you pick up and indulge in?