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BPSN celebrates sixth anniversary

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Today BP Sports Niagara celebrates its sixth anniversary of bringing local sports news to the citizens of Niagara. Since our launch, we have attracted more than 991,000 unique visitors to our site and have recorded an impressive 3.3 million pages views.

To help us continue to provide this worthwhile service, Hit the Support Us button on our website or join the many other businesses who choose to spent their advertising dollars supporting local journalism all the while getting great bang for their advertising buck. All funds generated by our site will be used to support our “Boots on the ground” editorial coverage.

Thanks to our families for believing in us and all those who have supported our site. Without that support, we wouldn’t exist.

We will see you at tonight’s St. Catharines Falcons’ and Port Colborne Sailors’ home openers.

Bernie Puchalski, a graduate of Brock University and Niagara College, worked in journalism in Niagara for more than 27 years before taking a voluntary buyout from The Standard at the end of 2016. He started his career as a news reporter for the Niagara Falls Review before switching to sports reporting. He was a sports reporter and sports editor at the Niagara Falls Review before joining the Standard's sports department in 1996. He was named the Standard's sports editor in 2000 and became the regional sports editor, in charge of the Niagara Falls Review, Welland Tribune and Standard, in 2015, a position he held until he left the company. During his time in newspapers, he was a multiple winner and finalist for numerous Ontario and Western Ontario Newspaper Awards for sports reporting, spot news reporting and humour writing. He was a member of the Standard Boys Basketball Tournament committee and co-chair of the Standard Girls Basketball Tournament, helping to raise tens of thousands of dollars for bursaries presented to participants in the tournament. He also served on countless local sports committees both in Niagara Falls and St. Catharines.

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