Snoopy and his gang to get own ice arena

Snoopy will soon have a whole arena instead of just a frozen birdbath to skate on.

The Ramsey County (Minn.) Board voted Tuesday to rename an ice arena after Charles Schulz, the late "Peanuts" cartoonist who grew up in St. Paul.

Park officials expect to put up a new sign within a month. They also plan to redecorate the arena with comic strip characters.

Schulz, a hockey enthusiast, was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993. He died earlier this year of colon cancer. He was 77.