1.   Backyard skating rinks are popping up all over, wherever the climate is cold enough to turn water into rock.

2.   Aficionados say backyard rinks encourage a sense of community in an age of anomie.

3.   Build your own fun with a backyard ice rink.

4.   Falla celebrated a goal while skating with family and friends recently in his backyard skating rink.

5.   It was on that backyard skating rink, built by Walter Gretzky, where the brothers honed their skills.

6.   Most years during his childhood, Jay skated on a backyard rink Dan would construct each winter.

7.   On assignment, he skated with Wayne Gretzky, but not surprisingly got more out of his dad, Walter Gretzky, talking backyard rinks.

8.   People with exceptionally talented children or with serious ambitions for their children have long had backyard rinks.

9.   Skaters making their debut on the backyard rink began signing their book.

10.   Town officials prefer backyard rinks to ponds, especially since increasingly mild winters have made pond ice more dangerous.