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, Wednesday, November 5th, 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.
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in (McKinleyville from 10 until 3pm;) Arcata from 4 until 6pm; Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; (Fortuna from 10 until noon;) and Garberville from 2 until 4pm.
(The Food for People Mobile Pantry will be in Fortuna, at the Fortuna Adventist Community Services, 2331 Rohnerville Rd, from 10 until 12:30pm)
In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting food distributions in Ukiah from noon until 4pm; Fort Bragg from 10 until 3:45pm; and Willits from 1 until 4:30pm.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles will be at Changing Tides Family Services, 2259 Myrtle Avenue, Eureka, from 11 until 5pm and Six Rivers Brewery, 1300 Central Ave, McKinleyville, from noon until 6pm. 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
(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, Redwood Community Radio, Wednesday, November 5th from 7pm to 8pm, for the Civil Liberties Hour with Bonnie Blackberry and guest, Humboldt County 2nd District Supervisor, Michelle Bushnell. This is an opportunity to hear from our local representative about current issues facing Humboldt County, particularly in the 2nd district Tune in, listen in, and then call in if you have any questions or comments.
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.