Officials say this year’s Niagara County Peach Festival has gone off without a hitch so far after flyers circulated the county that said KKK members were going to attend.

Though police believe the flyers weren’t actually from the KKK, residents in the county are not taking the scare lightly.

Brigitte Holbert and more than 20 other people showed up to the festival Saturday to talk to attendees about the dangers of ignoring KKK recruitment efforts. Holbert is a part of the Buffalo chapter of Showing Up for Racial Injustice, a national organization striving for racial justice.

“We wanted to give our community an alternative to silence in the face of groups that are motivated by hate and fear,” Holbert said.

Police said there's been no KKK presence at the festival so far. They don't believe the flyers were from the KKK. Despite this, Holbert says it’s still important to speak up.

“When people see these things, we can’t say because it was fake the effect it will have doesn’t matter," Holbert added. "We need to take these things seriously because we know from history that when white supremacists are allowed to even have a hint of acceptability, they gain power and harm people and I don’t want to see that her. I don’t want to see that anywhere."

Meanwhile, festival organizers are glad to see the festival isn’t having any problems.

“All that nonsense that was put out about having different groups coming to festival for whatever reason has not happened number one. Number two, the police presence has been exceptional,” said Jerry Wolfgang, the chair of the festival’s advisory committee.

Holbert said her group were asked to leave the festival after being there for less than an hour. Police said the Kiwanis Club of Lewiston, which runs the festival, asked them to leave since they have control of the grounds for the weekend. They say it had nothing to do with the group’s message or agenda.

As the festival wraps up Sunday, Wolfgang ensures festivalgoers have nothing to worry about. And as for Holbert, she says she will continue to make her voice heard when any effort to promote white supremacy shows up in her community.

 “I want to know that my children live in a community where they’re safe. I want to know that my friends and family live in a community where they’re safe, and when we are ignorant of our alternatives to white supremacy when we stay silent, we lose that safety,” she said.