President Klaus to present awards on Foundation of Czechoslovakia anniversary

President Vaclav Klaus will award distinguished Czech personalities on the 89th anniversary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia. The ceremony will take place at the Prague Castle on Sunday. According to the daily Lidove Noviny, the distinguished figures to receive the Order of Tomas Garrigue Masasaryk, the Distinguished Service Medal and other decorations include Anna Honova, an anti-communist resistance fighter, Marie Goretti Boltnarova, a member of the catholic order of Sisters of Mercy, Second World War veteran Stanislav Hnelicka who fought the Axis armies at Tobruk, and visual artist Old"ich Kulhanek who designed the currently used Czech banknotes.