Come in, would you like a coffee? I thought someone was making fun of me first. We just meet like this, if that's good
Radovan Vitko
Job: businessman, builder
Place: Trenčín - Kubrá
Date of Award: 9. 9. 2026
Come in, would you like a coffee? I thought someone was making fun of me first. We just meet like this, if that's good
If it weren’t for cell phones, we’d chase Radovan like the Jánošík panda. He’s a construction company, and that means he’s more on the ground than he’s in the office, and he doesn’t even know where and when he’s ever caught. So the surprise was only half because we agreed to meet at his home at an hour.
Radovan’s not the kind of guy who fills the tavern with roaring. Rather, he is quiet, material, and modest. Judging by the house he invited us to, he is a very skilled, hardworking, and precise master. He loves his family and his home village. He won’t let the neighbors. He’s one of those guys who’ll call you when there’s something to help you do in the village. He calls and puts his hand in the first place. For example, it helps to renovate the church, organizes guys to build May, or calls families to goulash parties at Janáková in Kubranska valley.
We were now August 15th. We have such a tradition in honor of a friend who is no longer among us, We explain Radovan and show the photos of the last event. They fixed the benches, cleaned the well, cooked the stew. The next day, women came to them and had fun and remembered. There we always relax, rest. We just meet like this, though it’s good,
Among the photos that he shows, we can see the roe caught. Rado is a passionate hunter and you will find him in securing every social event that Kubra lives by. He also advocates traditions. Building May can’t do without it. Once it was built by recruits, but there is no more compulsory military, and so it is not just young men or married men. The tradition is that we build it by hand and cut it by hand, and he said with due pride. He says it’s a little bit of adrenaline, because it’s already happened that he broke in building them.
Nobody got hurt, so there was a happy story.