Melissa Stevens, of Lewiston, center, is comforted by her daughter, Angelina McHenry, 12, Monday night at Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston as they listen to stories surrounding domestic violence. Stevens, a survivor of domestic violence, and several dozen other survivors, officials and supporters gathered at Festival Plaza in Auburn where several speakers addressed the crowd before they all walked over the Longley Memorial Bridge into Lewiston where the vigil, organized by Safe Voices, continued. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
A seemingly demonic plate on the handle of a door in the closed off garden.
Shannon Howard, of Greenville South Carolina gets a kiss from Patrick Dempsey in Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston Friday afternoon after he greeted her and other warriors and bike riders from Challenge to Conquer Cancer, who had just arrived after biking or driving 1,300 miles from South Carolina to take part in this weekend's Dempsey Challenge. Little did she know that when she and her husband helped put on a bbq back home with the group forming the ride in 2008 that her husband, who passed away from cancer recently, would come full circle with being helped by the funds they helped raise.