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Construction workers help lift a beam near the front of the UI Campus Recreation & Wellness Center on Sept. 3. The center is expected to open by the fall of 2010; it will include, among many other items, a rock-climbing wall, jogging track, and lazy river.

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West High English teacher Amber Swenson gives an interview in West’s Library Media Center on Sept. 2. Swenson, who has taught for eight years, recently was accepted by a School of Library and Information Science program to educate teacher/librarians.