The boy found it hard not to think about getting bonked with a baseball as he played a game of catch with his father in a park in El Monte. It was early in the evening, but in the fast-fading light, Jose Rocha, 9, said the baseball looked like a wad of paper.
"It's kind of hard to see it," the boy said in Lambert Park.
Anxious to find savings as city coffers take a hit, El Monte turns off half the lights in all its parks.
"We used to play till 8," the boy's father, also named Jose, said. "Not anymore."
In El Monte, the fear these days is about backsliding
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Just a reminder that we are in a recession, and that kids are having a hard time playing sports at night
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