Friday, January 9th, 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, Wednesday, January 9th 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.
In Humboldt, Food for Peopleis hosting food distributions in Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm and in Alderpoint from 1 until 2:30pm.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles will be at Walmart in Crescent City from 11 until 4pm and Safeway in Fortuna 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 food distributions in Ukiah from noon until 4pm, Fort Bragg from 10 until 3:45pm; Willits from 1 until 4:30pm; and Point Arena from 2 until 5pm.
Lunch is 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.
Hello KMUD listeners, from 7 to 8 PM Myth Busting in Mental Illness with Lea Nagy and Simone Whipple will be talking about mental health, mental illness and other related topics. Please tune in it and feel free to call in your comments, questions , and concerns! Join Lea and Simone from 7 to 8. Pm every second Friday.
The KMUD Board invites everyone to the Annual Meeting of the Members on Sunday, Jan. 18 at 1:00pm. This will be a Zoom, and if we can we’ll organize an in-person meeting also. We’ll hear reports, hear from board candidates for election and appointment (two appointments this spring), and hear Open Time comments. The Zoom link will be posted on the website before the meeting.
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.