Thursday, January 1, 2026
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, January 1st, Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte and Trinity Counties have suspended all burns at this time.
In Humboldt, Food for Peopleis hosting food distributions in McKinleyville from 10 until 3pm; Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; Arcata from 4 until 6pm; Fortuna from 10 until noon; and Garberville from 2 until 4pm.
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 1until 4:30pm.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s Blood Mobile will be at the Eureka Mall from 10 until 3pm and the Rio Dell Community Drive, 675 Wildwood Ave., from 10 until 3pm. 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
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 can help to keep our community trash-free by joining the Eel River Clean-up Project tomorrow, and now, every Thursday. Join ERCP tomorrow at 9:30am at the Garberville Vet’s Park, across from Dazey’s, to help keep Southern Humboldt roadsides trash free.
Join Sue Moloney for another addition of “Off the Cuff” this Thursday (and the first Thursday of every month) at 7pm on KMUD radio. Cleansing and fluoride and censorship – OH MY! The hour will have 2 short segments on health – cleansing for the new year and an update on fluoride in Arcata’s water system with former Mayor Paul Pitino. Then, we will talk about what might be censorship at the Humboldt County Library. That’s this Thursday evening at 7pm right here on KMUD. Your calls are welcome.
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.