Const. Frank Beevers monument dedication

As a bagpiper played Amazing Grace, Sheila Thomas retreated from a crowd of police officers, reporters and dignitaries gathered at Edmonton Cemetery Thursday and pulled a package of tissues from her red jacket.
The man buried in the grave around which they had gathered, Frank Beevers, has been dead for almost a century — the first Edmonton police officer killed in the line of duty. But to Thomas, who spent years researching Beevers’ story, he felt more like family than a histori