Advertisers: Our partner

Advertising is the lifeblood of every news publication. As such, witout its advertisers, a newspaper cannot survive. In its 25th year, The Visayan Daily Star pays tribute to its loyal advertisers that have stuck with it through the good and the bad times. Its advertisers have always been the DAILY STAR's partners in bringing news and information to the Negrense community since 1982. The familiar logos and taglines that its readers see and read everyday are the ones that saw through this newspaper through the years and enabled it to bring to its readers the news and features about the community that it serves.

As the DAILY STAR's advertising coordinator, Maja Dely, puts it the advertisers generate income for the newspaper, and it is through their unwavering support that this newspaper is able to hit the newsstands everyday.

Healing and touching lives

For the past 25 years, your DAILY STAR has become a refuge to the needy, destitute, and those who have nobody to turn to, seeking help for their kin who have fallen victims to illness or tragedy -- poor souls hoping to get through the obstacles of life, and see the better part of it, however an uphill battle it may seem. With help from generous readers, especially countless donors who have "not let their right hand know what the other was doing," the paper has seen a number of patients, most of them children, able to survive and making it back to mainstream society.

Others, though, were unfortunate despite prompt medical attention and putting up a brave fight. The DAILY STAR was always and in all ways beside them. Through all these years, the STAR has witnessed how these people have fallen down and shed tears, offered their prayers and shared their dreams, till the day they stood up from their brokenness and became whole.

Closer to the action

Long regarded as the country's sports mecca, Negros Occidental has an active sporting calendar and prides itself as the breeding ground of the finest athletes in the country. From Las Vegas to Doha, Qatar, the Visayan DAILY STAR has chronicled the action, achievements and setbacks of Negrense athletes and gave readers the lowdown on the controversies that hound the local sports circle.

Such commitment started when the DAILY STAR printed its maiden issue in April 12, 1982. The section was then known as SportsStar under former sports editor Vic Salazar.

The DAILY STAR has kept a keen eye on local sporting talent. On the maiden issue, Salazar featured then 18-year-old swimming sensation Francisco Guanco. More than two years later, Guanco, represented the Philippines in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.