Senator Alice Nitka D-Windsor (center), listens amidst a gathered crowd of approximately one hundred people during the Freedom & Unity candlelight vigil on Tuesday at the Vermont State House in Montpelier. Approximately one hundred people were in attendance during the signing of H.717 by Governor Phil Scott, an unprecedented bipartisan act of humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine in support of crisis mitigation via the nonprofit Save The Children. (Herald / Seth Butler)