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As a longtime friend of Fr. Robert Bussen, who is pastor at St. Mary’s in Park City, Flynn was invited to the Wasatch Back to help with Spanish masses at both St. Lawrence.and St. Mary’s. . Hoping to stay in the area, “as long as my health holds out,” the energetic 71-year-old is already planning a tentative delegation to Colombia next year. to 25,000 people to the region in the ‘80s and ‘90s who often come back << @GMAC 4 BR, Custom JAMES detectable Southern accent, landed in Central America over touched,” FR. entirely different story.” Flynn, who speaks the years. “extremely OF when it gets into the hands of people that want to turn it into cocaine, it’s an has been active in social movements since the 1960s and taken an estimated 15 delegations to drugs, but a war on COURTESY planting the seed.” Yet Flynn insists targeting the plants in the Andean Mountains is mis- | guided. “It’s (cocoa production) a cultural reality for them,” he said. “But grassroots protests in the war is not a war on ‘Stunning Mountain Home expect where he served for 45 years as a Catholic diocese priest, has been down this road before. 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