Community Safety and Awareness Report
Friday, October 24th, 2025
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 24th, 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.
(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 (and in Loleta at 1000 Wiyot Dr. from 10 until noon and at Bear River, 263 Keisner Rd., from 11 until 12:30pm.)
The Northern California Community Blood Bank blood mobiles will be at the McKinleyville Shopping Center from 10 until 4pm and in Loleta, at Jersey Scoops, 348 Main St., from 11 until 4pm. And as always, the blood bank is open Monday thru Friday, located at 2524 Harrison Avenue in Eureka. To schedule an appointment to donate, visit nccbb.net.
In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting food distributions in Fort Bragg from 10 until 3:45pm; Ukiah from noon until 4pm; Willits from 1until 4:30pm; Point Arena from 2 until 5pm; and Potter Valley from 2 until 4pm.
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.
Although a cease fire agreement seems to have been reached in Gaza, the situation there is still extremely dire with its displaced residents returning to a wasteland still largely under Israeli control. On this month’s Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag brings back Jennifer Loewenstein, the former associate director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a current activist and freelance journalist. She has lived in and reported extensively on the Middle East. Her most recent article is “If Hannah Arendt lived today, she’d name Israel’s genocide in Gaza for what it is: ‘Radical evil'” On this prerecorded show, Ms. Lowenstein discusses the current situation in Gaza and what can be expected moving forward. That’s Friday, October 24 at 7 PM, right here on the Mud…
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.