Friday, January 16th, 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.
Friday, January 16th is a No Burn day in Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity and Del Norte Counties due to weather conditions. Today, burning is not permissible.
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; Dinsmore from 9 until 11am; Blocksburg, at 27922 Alderpoint Rd., from 1:30 until 3:30pm; and, in Bridgeville, at the Community Center, from 10 until 4pm.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles are at Eureka Natural Food in McKinleyville from 11 until 5pm and in Garberville at Community First Credit Union from 10 until 3pm. 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 at the Fort Bragg Food Bank from 10 until 3:45pm; the Ukiah Community Food Bank from noon until 4:00pm; Round Valley Food Bank, at 76300 Grange Rd. in Covelo, from 10 until 2pm; the Willits Community Services and Food Bank from 1 until 4:30pm; the Laytonville Food Bank, at 44400 Willis Ave., from 2 until 4pm; and, the Point Arena Action Network, at 200 Main St, from 2 until 5pm.
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 Ask the Herb Doctor with Andrew and Sarah Murray. You may call 707-923-3911 to join the conversation. That’s Ask the Herb Doctor tonight between 7 and 8 pm only on Redwood Community Radio, KMUD.
The KMUD Board of Directors invites everyone to the Annual Meeting of the Members this Sunday, Jan. 18 at 1:00pm. This will be in person at the Healy Center in Redway and also on Zoom. 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. Those attending in person are welcome to bring a snack to share.
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.