In order to make young people aware about the importance of giving and receiving right and accurate information, the Lions Club Sondrio Masegra has promoted "Giuseppe Mambretti Press Award" for the students attending junior and senior high schools in the province of Sondrio.
Credito Valtellinese Foundation has taken part in the initiative contributing some "extra prizes" for buying technical equipment. The Foundation meant to honour, ten years after his death, the memory of one of the first professional journalists who worked in Valtellina.

Giuseppe Mambretti Award is therefore meant to acknowledge the commitment in giving information that can analyse events in depth and look at local events with a critical and up-to-date eye also with reference to the national press.

The initiative aimed at honouring, ten years after his death, the memory of this journalist from Valtellina, who played a very important and ethical role in developing the local press, radio and television becoming a point of reference for journalism.

The prize-giving ceremony took place on Monday May 22 at Palazzo Sertoli in Sondrio with the presence of Credito Valtellinese Foundation and Lions Club Sondrio Masegra representatives and many students of the schools that won the prizes.

Prizes were given to:

Junior high schools:
1st place "Media Righini" of Cosio Valtellino for the magazine "Il Pipistrello"
2nd place "IIIa D Media Ligari" of Sondrio for the magazine "Matti da Ligari"
3rd place "Media Valdisotto" for the magazine "Mix"



Senior high schools:
1st place "Liceo Classico Piazzi" of Sondrio for the magazine "Cerere"
2nd place "IIa ragioneria A. De Simoni" of Sondrio for the magazine "L'occhio dei giovani"
3rd place "IVa Liceo G.W. Leibniz" of Bormio for the magazine "Skizzo"



Sondrio, Monday May 22 2000