Thursday, November 20th, 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.
Today, Thursday, November 20, 2025 is a Permissive Burn day. Burn permits are required for ALL open burning. Burn hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Burn piles are limited to 4’ x 4’, unless otherwise stated by a fire agency. You can only burn vegetative matter.
Today, the North Coast Growers Association is hosting the McKinleyville Farmers’ Market from 3 to 6pm and the Henderson Center Farmers’ Market from 10 until 1:30pm.
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions at the Blue Lake Community Resource Center, 111 Greenwood Ave., from 10 until 1pm; McKinleyville from 10 until 3pm; Willow Creek Community Resource Center, 38883 CA-299 from 10 until noon; Ferndale from 1 until 2pm; Loleta from 3 until 5pm; Rio Dell Community Resource Center, 406 Wildwood Ave, from 9 until noon; and Garberville from 10:30 until noon.
The Food for People Mobile Pantry is hosting a food distribution at Orick Elementary School, 120918 US-101, Orick, from noon until 2pm.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles will be in Eureka at College of the Redwoods and US Bank, 2910 F St, both locations from 10 until 4pm. And as always, the Northern California Community 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 a food distribution in Ukiah from 9 until 2pm.
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 All Things Reconsidered with Erik Kirk. You may call 707-923-3911 to join the conversation. That’s All Things Reconsidered 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.