KMUD’s new Community Resources and Calendar page is now live on the KMUD website, kmud.org/, under the COMMUNITY dropdown menu. Our improved calendar provides addresses, phone numbers and up to date information for farmers markets, food distributions, public meals, blood drives and other community services.
Provided you have a valid Air Quality burn permit, Friday, October 17th, is a permissive burn day in Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties. Residents in state responsibility areas must also obtain a Cal Fire burn permit. Please refer to your air quality burn permit for approved burn hours and restrictions.
(Today, the North Coast Growers Association is hosting the Garberville Farmers’ Market from 11 until 3pm.)
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; (Dinsmore from 9 until 11;) Blocksburg from 1:30 until 3:30pm; and Bridgeville from 10 until 4pm. Tomorrow, the Leggett Food Pantry is open from 11 until 12:30pm.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank blood mobiles will be at Paul’s Live from New York Pizza in Fortuna from 11 until 4pm (and Ray’s Place in Garberville from 10 until 3pm.) As always, the Northern California Community Blood Bank, 2524 Harrison Ave, in Eureka will be open from 8am to 2pm. To schedule an appointment to donate, visit nccbb.net.
In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting a food distribution in Fort Bragg from 10 until 3:45pm; Ukiah from noon until 4pm; Laytonville from 2 until 4pm; Point Arena from 2 until 5pm ; Willits from 1 until 4:30pm; (and Round Valley Food Bank, 76300 Grange St., Covelo from 10 until 2pm.)
(No need to read the following lunch announcements at 3pm.) Lunches are provided for seniors at the Willits Senior Center from 11:45 until 1:00pm, and the Redwood Coast Seniors Center in Fort Bragg from 11:30 until 1:15pm. Plowshares Peace and Justice Center in Ukiah provides a hot meal weekdays from 11:30 until noon.
Meals are provided Monday through Friday at Willits Daily Bread from 4:30 to 5:30pm and at the Mendocino Coast Hospitality House in Fort Bragg at 3pm.
You are invited to tune in to KMUD tonight from 7 to 8 for Ask the Herb Doctor with Andrew and Sarah Murray. You may call 707-923-3911 to join the conversation. That’s Ask the Herb Doctor tonight between 7 and 8 pm only on Redwood Community Radio, KMUD.
This concludes the Community Safety and Awareness Report, read weekdays at 11 and 3pm and as needed to bring you up to the minute road reports, burn permission status, emergency updates as well as programming information. We encourage our listeners to bookmark our community resources and calendar page for up to date and detailed information of all the services our community offers.