Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
On September 29, 2000, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on the St. Charles County Social Justice Alliance's Stop the Hate rally, interfaith fellowship and candlelight vigil. The service "will include talks by concerned community activists, interfaith prayers and music by the B'hai Choir. The service will end with a candlelight vigil in the circular driveway of St. Charles Presbyterian. The St. Charles County Social Justice Alliance was spawned from last year's Stop the Hate Rally-also held at St. Charles Presbyterian...the goal of the organization is to touch lives, increase awareness about discrimination and improve the community." The alliance's advisory board includes clergy,community activists, teachers, social service workers and business people. The alliance and the annual rally are "part of a national movement sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Interfaith Alliance." Anne Ortwerth, an advocate for the alliance, hopes that the rallies will touch people's lives in some way: " 'Anything we can do to make people more tolerant and aware that there is another way to live has to help.' "