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Tina Bailey, left, Lewiston Ward 5 city councilor, lights her candle from Dot Treadwell’s candle during a candlelight vigil for the homeless organized by the Lewiston-Auburn Alliance of Services to the Homeless at Veterans Park Monday night. “I was homeless for about 9 months due to a mental illness,” said Treadwell, who has been associated with LAASH for 6 years and now has a home. “It made me more compassionate to the issue. I didn’t see homeless people before, and now I see them everywhere.”