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The Sarnia Sports and Entertainment Centre is a 5,300-seat multi-purpose arena in Sarnia, OntarioCanada. It was built in 1998. It is home to the Sarnia StingIce hockeyteam. An arena is a circular or oval shaped public space (akin to a classical amphitheatre), designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. ... Sarnia is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada (population 70,876 in 2001). ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The Sarnia Sting are a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... A team is any group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. ...
The SarniaArena was built in 1948 and is the definition of the old community barn.
When the SSEC was finished, the SarniaArena went back to its position as an old-style community rink, home to minor hockey and Junior B. From the outside the Arena is a big-looking building with a high-arched ceiling.
The SarniaArena is still used by the junior "B" Sarnia Blast (formerly the Sarnia Bees, formerly the Sarnia Steeplejacks, formerly the Sarnia Steeplejack Bees).
Sarnia is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada (population 70,876 in 2001).
The early growth of Sarnia was stimulated by the wealth of adjoining stands of timber, by the discovery of oil nearby and by the arrival of The Great Western Railway in 1858 and the Grand Trunk Railway in 1859.
Sarnia became a prominent deep water port during the 1920s when many of the shipping facilities that exist today were constructed, including the winter harbour, the elevator slip and the large grain elevators.
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