A home tour with a twist in Wyoming and a display of holiday table settings at the newly renovated Moraine Farm in Kettering will be among Tristate fund-raisers this fall.

        • The Junior Woman's Club of Wyoming's “Celebration Through the Year,” noon-3 p.m. next Saturday, will feature six homes decorated for a different celebration — a holiday, season or family gathering.

        The homes, Victorian to modern, will be decorated to varying degrees, some by professionals and others by club members, says Karen Lindner, event chairwoman. For example:

IF YOU GO

What: Celebrations Through the Year, a tour of six decorated Wyoming homes, sponsored by the Junior Woman's Club of Wyoming.    When: Check in 11 a.m.-noon next Saturday at Wyoming Civic Center, 1 Worthington Ave. Tour noon-3 p.m. Reception 3-4 p.m. at civic center.    Tickets: $20. Reservations limited: 761-9365. Deadline: Thursday.    What: Holiday Tables, the Opera Guild of Dayton's fifth annual fund-raiser featuring 14 table settings by community celebrity designers.    When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 10-11 and Nov. 13-14 and noon-5 p.m. Nov. 12.    Where: Moraine Farm, West Stroop Road, Kettering.    Tickets: Presale tickets $12. Send self-addressed, stamped envelope and check payable to Opera Guild of Dayton, WBB, P.O. Box 661, Dayton, OH 45409-0661. Tour-day tickets ($15) will be available in north parking lot of NCR Country Club across from Moraine Farm.    Information: (937) 640-0321.

        — A Hilltop Lane home will be decorated for Christmas by Sacksteder's Interiors of Montgomery and New Trenton, Ind.. A focal point will be the fireplace. Under a cream and gold wall swag will be a cream-colored Santa and angel and gold boxes on the mantel. On the floor will be a 4-foot-tall Santa dressed in white fur and a sleigh filled with candles and materials matching the swag.

        A pair of 9-foot slim trees will lead to the similarly decorated dining room.

        “We're doing the home in cream, gold and raspberry, except for the kitchen, which will be traditional red,” Karen Sacksteder says. “There will be gingerbread men in the kitchen, and in the dinette we're using a new greenery that comes covered in "snow' and red berries.”

        — The outside of an An Elm Street home with a harvest theme by Laurel Wreaths Interiors of Oxford will be a tailgate party set in the back of a Chrysler PT Cruiser.

        In front of the family room fireplace will be a fall picnic vignette. The dining table will be set for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.

        — Springtime will be theme for a Linden Ridge home. White orchids and tulips will be used to “punch up” the home's French country look in tomato red, golden yellow and spring green, says Robbin Miller with Peppercorn Decorating of Wyoming. The dining room will be set for a Mother's Day brunch.

        Also on the tour will be a Linden Lane home decorated with a wedding theme; a Central Terrace home ready for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day festivities, and an Oliver Road home decorated for family gatherings, such as a child's birthday and a Valentine's Day party.

        The tour will begin at the Wyoming Civic Center. Light refreshments will be served 3-4 p.m. at the center. It benefits Bethany House Services, which provides housing, education and other assistance to low-income and homeless women and children.

        • The Opera Guild of Dayton's fifth annual Holiday Tables event Nov. 10-14 will give visitors a rare view inside the Moraine Farm in west Kettering. At the same time, they can view 14 holiday tables decorated by Dayton celebrities. Themes will include Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's Eve, Kwanzaa and Winter Solstice.

        Moraine Farm's original farmhouse, built in 1912, is on the former estate of Col. Edward Deeds, an inventor and electro-mechanical pioneer who became chairman of NCR. The property was purchased by NCR in 1953 and today is used for conferences and to house visiting NCR executives.

        The home has an astronomical observatory, a manual pipe organ and one of the largest grand pianos in the country.

        The event, which will benefit Dayton Opera and the Guild's children's education program, also will feature a boutique and dessert and coffee bar.

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