Town of Viking CEO and wife see son named Deputy Minister

A former senior bureaucrat in Alberta’s Ag ministry is set to return as the department’s Deputy Minister at the end of the month.

    The Alberta government on Friday announced Jason Krips, son of Viking’s  Rod and Ellen Krips,
as Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development effective Sept. 30.

Krips, who’s now Assistant Deputy Minister of International Relations with the province’s International and Intergovernmental Relations, will replace John Knapp, the Ag Department’s Deputy Minister since 2008.

For more see the Sept. 17/13 issue of the Viking Weekly Review