Wow, we may start to run out of room for all the pikas in front of the Old Church Shops

Both of the Estes Park men who sexually abused 14-year-old Margaret Baldwin back in 1917 were active members of the local Community Church.  We gave one of them a pika, why not welcome Bill Hybels into the pika fold?

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