Round-Up: Fire burning near Wetmore; Rural health clinics get grants; Shaffer plans to enter race

· Jul. 5, 2011, 5:32 pm

Crews are hoping to build more containment lines around a 154-acre wildfire burning in southern Colorado near Wetmore...The Colorado Rural Health Center announced recently the Eastern Plains Medical Clinic in Calhan and the Cripple Creek-Victor Mountain Health Center are splitting $100,000...and, Colorado's Democratic Senate President Brandon Shaffer is preparing to challenge Republican Cory Gardner in Colorado's 4th Congressional District.

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