WAITSBURG-Waitsburg Celebration Days officials announced that Karen Peters Tonne and Dan Katsel will lead the 2022 festivities as the Parade Marshalls.

Karen Peters Tonne is a lifelong area resident, including attending the Waitsburg School District for all 12 years of her schooling. She worked various jobs in the area before she took a job as a mechanical designer. She worked at Hanford, and later, at Key Technology, in Walla Walla.

In 1964, Tonne was selected as a Days of Real Sport Princess, alongside Sharon Anderson, Queen Margaret Nettles, and Linda Lou Lytle. She went to work in the race...