Alberto Cargnin

Who is Alberto Cargnin?

Alberto Cargnin was a writer, journalist and writer born in Tubarão, Santa Catarina state. He grow up in the Oficinas area, and since young age had a great love for the nature and journalism. Still young he collaborated for the weekly "Correio do Sul", soon after wrote and kept for long the column "Flagrantes da Cidade" in the "O Nosso Jornal" newspaper, and also founded and directed the "Folha do Sul" newspaper. He had already moved to Florianopolis when he founded and directed the "Jornal de São José". He got a graduation in Accountability in Curitiba and Economics Sciences at FESSC, which later gave origin to the UNISUL. He was auditor of CASAN for fifteen years and as President of MOBRAL he helped the city of Tubarao be the state winner against the Illiteracy, helping more than three thousand people to become literate. His Campaigns for Preservation of the Nature marked time, when along a decade, in several places of the city more than five thousands trees were planted and protected, like flamboyants, ipês and garapuvús, that still today decorate the margins of the river Tubarao.