Arnie Alpert photo Connor Spern, who works with several local groups that provide services for people who are homeless, lights a candle Monday night in Concord at the Homeless Persons Memorial Day vigil. Active With The Activists By ARNIE ALPERT for InDepthNH.org Alex Balcum “would count your buttons and proceed to push all of them,” recalls a homeless outreach worker, but he was “also one of the kindest souls we had the pleasure of working with.” He died in July in Rochester, one of 59 people whose lives were remembered Monday evening in Concord at the annual Homeless Persons Memorial Day vigil.