Plaster Rock plays host to world championships
Plaster Rock, New Brunswick is a small town, but plays host
to a large event: the World Pond Hockey Championship.
The community of Plaster Rock, population 1,200, is transformed
annually into an international hockey hotbed when it hosts
the World Pond Hockey Championship. Eighty teams of four players
each from across North America - as far west as Vancouver
and as deep south as Tennessee - compete in 22 simultaneous
games played on 25 ice surfaces.
Eighty teams of four players each from across North America
compete at the World Pond Hockey
Championship
in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick.
What started as a brainstorm by two local residents to raise
money for a community arena has also become an international
media event, with coverage in Sports Illustrated,
the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
RBC has taken an active role in the event in the last three
years. In 2004, RBC made a $1,500 donation to the Plaster
Rock Arena, employees from RBC Royal Bank branches in Plaster
Rock, Grand Falls, Edmunston and Bathurst all volunteered
to make the World Pond Hockey Championship such a smashing
success.
"Plaster Rock is a tiny town and to pull off a world
class event like this, really says something about the community
spirit and dedication," says RBC's Adam Buckle.
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