Susanne Giessen Prinz was the Supreme Award Winner at the 2025 Raglan Art2Wear this weekend, with a double outfit modelled by Bexie Towle and Anna Cunningham. Light and Dark drew from Japanese Fashion with the outfit made of fabric, wood veneer, toilet roll inners, and a pool noodle. The most dramatic feature involved an uncloseable umbrella with reclaimed irrigation pipe and 600 pages folded into fans.
The Supreme Child entry was King of the Valley by Cade Skerman and Zavier Mathis, involving moving wings and the face of a lion, the outfit was so wide it brushed across the faces of the first row of audience members.
The People’s Choice award went to Game On by Campbell and Lorraine Forlong and involved a jacket and skirt made of board games and a top and umbrella constructed out of a twister game. We’ve heard that Huggy Glovey by Nikau Pinfold came a very close second in the voting, with the outfit composed of 1000 blue gloves covering the body from head to toe it caused an audible delight amongst the audience as it emerged from the entryway.
Mike Rarere from the Raglan Community House was awarded a Mayoral Award by Waikato District Mayor Jacqui Church on Monday this week. Each year our Community Board and Councillor are asked for their nominations and while no official announcement has been made word has spread already about the popular Community House manager’s award.
A match lit six weeks ago in the coastal Taranaki town of Ōpunakē has ignited fires the length of the North Island – and far across the Pacific, say the national media, as our local Whaingaroa paddle out was mirrored across 8 communities on the west coast of the north island this weekend - and even in Tahiti, with opposition to seabed mining heating up once again.
With the TTR’s executive chairman Alan Eggers still insisting the discharge “wouldn’t bother the marine ecology”, he is continuing TTR’s policy of essentially lying about the true nature of their work which experts say will pulverise the contents of the seabed to a depth of up to 11 metres before creating life suffocating plumes of sediment when they try to put it back.
Elsewhere in the media Te Pati Maori co-leader and Taranki resident Debbie Ngarewa Packer has made headlines describing the plans to push seabed mining through the fast track process as another muru raupatu - comparing the project to the Parihaka landwars.
In local sport The Whaingaroa Whai Rugby league team has their first loss of the season going down 36-6 to top of the table Taharoa Steelers on Saturday.
The players of the day were Waikato Forbes, Justin Brown and Carlsson Clark
The rest of the season has gone so well for the Whai however, that they’re still second on the Senior A division table
And the Raglan Roosters also had a loss against their top of the table team on Sunday, going down 7-4 to the Deezciples in Division 1 of the Waikato Football League. Marty came away with a hat trick in a high scoring game but would have needed 2 of them to make their score competitive. The result leaves them second from the bottom of the division 1 table.