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The Toyota Center is an multi-purpose arena in Kennewick, Washington, USA. The arena opened in 1988 as the Tri-Cities Coliseum . In early October... 2005, a deal was reached between the city of Kennewick, Washington and Toyota, Toyota would pay $2 million over ten years for naming rights. The city of Kennewick uses that money to do much needed improvements and upgrades to the facility. A smaller facility next door, built by the City of Kennewick in 1998, was named the Toyota Arena as well. The Toyota Center is home to the Western Hockey League's Tri-City Americans hockey team and the Tri-Cities Fever of the Indoor Football League as well as the former home of the Tri-City Chinook of the Continental Basketball Association. It is also used for concerts , banquets, ice shows, circuses, and trade shows . The capacity for hockey is about 6,000.
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Jamie Marie Kern is best known as Creator and CEO of It Cosmetics She was also a TV News Anchor for several years and prior to that, a contestant on... the first season of Big Brother. She has also competed in the Miss USA pageant and won the Baywatch College Search in 1999 where she appeared on an episode of the TV show. She credits that experience to first learning about body makeup. Kern was born and grew up in San Rafael, California but later moved to Des Moines, Washington. Kern graduated from Washington State University as a member of that University's Honor College and was awarded the President's Award. She maintained a GPA of 4.0 and completed her degree in three years. In 1999 she was the Phi Kappa Phi Senior Scholar of the Year. After winning the title Miss Washington USA in late 1999, Kern went on to compete in the Miss USA 2000 pageant held in Branson, Missouri. The pageant, which was won by Lynnette Cole of Tennessee. Also in 2000 she appeared on the Reality TV show Big Brother. She was the last female houseguest left on that show .
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Erin Jeider Dean is a former American actress notable for playing Robbie Stevenson, the sixteen year old girl who teaches an alien how to fit in... with humans, in the Nickelodeon television show The Journey of Allen Strange. She also appeared in the movies Lovers Lane and Lolita. On television, she has appeared in episodes of Boy Meets World, A Pig's Tale, Blackbird Hall, Monty, Against the Grain, and Nickelodeon's game show Figure It Out. Dean has retired from acting and is said to have no plans of acting again. Her once-official website is no longer being updated and was shutdown.
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Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States located north of Oregon, west of Idaho and south of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Washington... is the 18th most extensive and the 13th most populous of the 50 United States. Approximately 60 percent of Washington's residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area, the center of transportation, business, and industry along the Puget Sound region of the Salish Sea, an inlet of the Pacific consisting of numerous islands, deep fjords, and bays carved out by glaciers. The remainder of the state consists of deep rainforests in the west, mountain ranges in the west, center, northeast and far southeast, and a semi-arid eastern basin given over to intensive agriculture. Washington is the second most populous state on the west coast and in the western United States after California.
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