Thursday, January 22nd, 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.
Provided you have a valid Air Quality burn permit, Thursday, January 22nd, 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; Willow Creek from 10 until noon and in Garberville from 10:30 until noon.
The Food for People mobile pantry will in Blue Lake, at the Blue Lake Community Resource Center, 111 Greenwood Ave., from 10 until 1pm.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank blood mobile is in Safeway in Arcata from 11 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 in Ukiah from 9 until 2pm and theLaytonville PopUp, 100 Cahto Dr., from noon until 1pm.
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 Kineste Coalition Radio Hour with Markida Hoaglin. You may call 707-923-3911 to join the conversation. That’s Kineste Coalition Radio Hour with Markida Hoaglin tonight between 7 and 8 pm only on KMUD.
On this month’s Global Stuff, Norman Solomon returns to the show and joins host Jimmy Durchslag to discuss the many current actions by the Trump administration that create an existential challenge to our country and our democracy. Mr. Solomon is a journalist, media critic, and author of several books, including his most recent, War Made Invisible, How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. He is also a founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy and RootsAction.org. Norman will provide a perspective on immigration, foreign policy and what we can expect from the political trends leading to the midterm elections. That’s tomorrow, January 23rd at 7 PM, right here on the Mud…
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.