Home Tour League breaks out the runway to kick off its fundraising season

One after another, women who have made their mark in the Santa Clarita Valley strutted in the latest fashions at The Oaks Club at Valencia, wearing locally sourced clothes at the Home Tour League Fashion Show Luncheon on Tuesday.

The event marked the organization’s first efforts in its 2023 fundraising for Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital’s Center for Women and Newborns.

“It really is about shop local and serve local,” said Katie Varner, president of the Home Tour League.

The Home Tour League Fashion Show Luncheon is the “kickoff” event of the Holiday Home Tour year, as Varner describes.

Upcoming events include “Christmas in July,” the fall general meeting, the Dec. 1 Holiday Home Tour Gala and the Dec. 2 Holiday Home Tour Boutique.

“2022 was our most successful year to date for Home Tour,” said Varner.

A $85,000 check from all of the fundraising efforts of the 2022 Holiday Home Tour was presented to Marlee Lauffer, president of the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital Foundation, for HMNH’S Center for Women and Newborns.

“It is very exciting times here at Henry Mayo,” said Lauffer. “I think I’m not going to dwell on what the last three years have been like, it’s been challenging