LONG BEACH - James Back, of Lakewood High, left, Eric Frazzetta, of Poly High, Boris Stantchev, of Wilson High, Max Do, of Wilson High, and O'Neill Cowan, of Wilson High, right, head toward the hole on the 4th. green during the Moore League Tournament. see more photos/buy reprints>>
April 2008 Archives
With the high cost of gas it's probably a good idea to fill up your tank at the same place you can buy lotto tickets
BLAIR FIELD - Long Beach State's Jason Corder (47) watches as a ball he hit reaches the left-center field wall but gets caught during their game at against Blair Field in Long Beach, Calif. on April 27, 2008. see more photos/buy reprints>>
LOS ALAMITOS - Sgt Donald Chang greets his sons Jason Chang, 4, and James Chang, 12, as he and other soldiers of the 160th Long Range
Surveillance Detachment arrive at the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, Calif. after a 12-month combat tour in Iraq on Sunday, April 27, 2008.
During their deployment, the Soldiers conducted security missions around Camp Slayer as Task Force Shield's Quick Reaction Force. Task Force Shield, consisted of five companies of National Guard units from California,
North Dakota, and Iowa. see more photos/buy reprints >>
After a sloppy, multiple-error first inning by Gahr they managed to beat Downey 8 to 1. See more photos/buy reprints
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This blog is a journal of Southern California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It's updated frequently with pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze.
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
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