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After the break of the concert “Operetta in Kaunas Castle” with the National Anthem, the city continued its beautiful tradition and thanked the people of Kaunas who deserve it. The mayor of Kaunas, Visvaldas Matijošaitis, presented them with municipal awards.
At the foot of Kaunas Castle – during the break of the “Operetta at Kaunas Castle” concert after the National Anthem was played, continuing the beautiful tradition, the city thanked the deserving residents of Kaunas – the Mayor of Kaunas , Visvaldas Matijošaitis, awarded them municipal awards.
This year, a record number of winners: 54. Representatives of various professions that deserve Kaunas, including the directors of all universities located in the city, received Santaka badges of honor of the first, second and third degrees, silver medals from the mayor of the city of Kaunas Jonas Vileitis, Kaunas Culture Awards and sculptures of the symbol of the city of Kaunas – Tauras.
The portal kauno.diena.lt interviewed three famous Kaunas residents awarded with the Santaka badge of honor of the first degree: the rector of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, the well-known cardiac surgeon Professor Rimantas Benetis, the metropolitan archbishop from Kaunas Kęstutis Kėvalas and the well-deserved Lithuanian coach in the basketball team and in the Lithuanian national team, Alexander Kosauskas, Doctor Honoris Causa of the Lithuanian Health University. We all ask the same thing: what does this honorable award mean to them?
Photo by Justina Lasauskaitė
Before receiving the Santaka 1st degree badge of honor for him, R. Benetis tended to be humble: “I do not consider that this award is dedicated to me personally, although, of course, it is a pleasure to receive it. I am grateful for the attention paid to the entire academic community, and in my person, to the entire Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, whose community consists of about 30 thousand people. people. And thanking Kaunas, I want to say that it is becoming more beautiful and more and more attractive, it is making our university the same, not only for Lithuanians, but also for foreigners ”.
Photo by Rimantas Benetis / Justina Lasauskaitė
Before receiving this honorable award on the kauno.diena.lt portal, K. Kėvalas said: “First of all, it is an unusually great obligation, because I have been in this position recently. And I don’t think it has any particular merit yet. I accept it as a great trust from the city and a commitment to work for the common good of the Kaunas community. And I feel like I’m receiving that award not just for myself, but for the entire community of believers that I represent. More – her. The citizens are so honored that they are praying for Kaunas. For me, as a resident of Kaunas, it is a great honor, although I think there are many more people who deserve it. “
Kęstutis Kėvalas / Photo by Justina Lasauskaitė
The confession of A. Kosauskas was also sensitive. He also emphasized that he was born and raised in Kaunas. And he was and will be a Kaunas patriot. “I talk about my childhood in Žaliakalnis – at the Sports Center, in the introduction to my book” Aleksandras Kosauskas – Coach “, after which I received a call from many of them saying that they had shaken the childhood memories in their hearts. Presidents of Lithuania awarded me both the Commander’s Cross and the Medal of the Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas, and ten years ago I received the second degree Santaka badge of honor, but I very much appreciate this new award. And I am very excited to remember myself ”, A. Kosauskas did not pass.
Aleksandras Kosauskas / Photo by Justina Lasauskaitė
Photo by Justina Lasauskaitė
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