Have fun with your food and enter News 10 My Neighborhood's Patriotic Treats contest. Email photos of your homemade culinary creations from Independence Day with a patriotic theme to writer@news10.net. Voting will begin and photos will be posted on My Neighborhood Central Stockton's Facebook page on Friday, July 6 at 8 a.m.  The photo with the most "likes" by 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 12 will win a $50 gift certificate to College Bakery, 5308 Pacific Avenue #11C in Stockton. Make sure to vote for your favorite!

Photos will be posted as received. Deadline to submit a photo will be Wednesday, July 11 at 1 p.m. Remember, the sooner the photo is received, the sooner people can begin voting. Only one photo submission per household accepted.

News10 My Neighborhood ran a week-long sweepstakes contest last week. 

We asked our vusers to submit their definition of HOOPLA, and when they did, their names were automatically submitted into a random drawing.  Then, four lucky winners would receive four passes each to Golfland SunSplash.

This dictionary quiz sweepstakes contest was inspired as part of News10's Reading Connects campaign which is all about connecting with our community to help improve the literacy rate.

Well, we received over 90 responses, and some people were thoughtful enough to email us a sentence with the word HOOPA in it.  Here are some examples:

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Lynne Conner - There will be much hoopla if we win the tickets to Sunsplash.  My grandson and son will be visiting from Florida,

Last month News10 My Neighborhood gave a shout out to our communities and ask you to send us a picture of a child reading to a pet. The pictures were then put into our photo gallery article and the names were submitted into our random drawing, where the winner was to receive a prize.

PHOTOS: Kids Reading to Pets

This contest was part of News10's Reading Connects campaign, which is our effort at improving the literacy rate in our area.

Research has shown that children's reading skills improve when they read to their pets, hence the inspiration for this contest.

The winner of our "Kids Reading to Pets" sweepstakes contest random drawing was Jill, who submitted a picture of her son, Devin, reading to his dog, Jake.

Devin was around a year old when the