The Ungheni municipal town hall employs a man whom many passers-by see but few know by name. He is Simion Moisei, the person who, day after day, keeps the square in front of the building in order — the paths, the trees and the shrubs. On his birthday, the town hall thanked him publicly.
Mayor Vitalie Vrabie handed him a diploma and a bouquet of flowers, with a message about the quiet work behind the image of an institution.
There are people who, through what they do, quietly shape the image of an institution. You are one of those people.
Vitalie Vrabie, mayor of Ungheni municipality
The square in front of the town hall is one of the first spaces anyone sees on arriving at the institution or passing through the town centre. Keeping it up — trimming the shrubs, cleaning the paths, tending the trees — is constant and, most of the time, unseen work. In its message, the town hall describes Simion Moisei as “a caretaker of a kind rarely met these days”, a man for whom “deeds matter, not words”, and of “rare modesty”.
The diploma from the town hall, showing the employee’s correct name — Simion Moisei. Source: the Ungheni Municipal Town Hall Facebook page.
Gestures like this are rare for a category of workers who seldom draw public attention — those who maintain the town’s green and public spaces. The recognition comes alongside the major landscaping projects under way in Ungheni, from the regeneration of the French Park to the squares in the centre: spaces that look good for exactly as long as someone tends them every day.