Friday, February 27th, 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, Friday, February 27th, 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 Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm and in Loleta at 1000 Wiyot Dr. from 10 until noon and at Bear River, 263 Keisner, from 11 until 12:30pm.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank blood mobiles will be at the McKinleyville Shopping Center from 10 until 4pm and inLoleta, at Jersey Scoops,348 Main St., from 11 until 4pm.And as always, the blood bankis 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 Fort Bragg from 10 until 3:45pm; Ukiah from noon until 4pm; Willits from 1until 4:30pm; Point Arena from 2 until 5pm; and Potter Valley from 2 until 4pm.
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.
There will be a KMUD Board Talk Show on Wednesday, March 11th at 7 pm where the Board will talk about their plans to appoint a new member to a board seat in March, and another in April. Those interested in being considered for the Board can email [email protected] by March 12th for the first seat; or April 13th for the second seat. Thank you to everyone who contributes energy to Redwood Community Radio.
Fire Radio returns to KMUD on Monday, March 2nd at 7 pm with a program about the upcoming conference, Making Money With Your Forest, on March 14th at Redwood Playhouse. Gray Shaw and Karyn Wagner, directors of Black Ripple, will present the purpose of this conference – finding out how to leverage grant money and carbon credits to save your forest and yourself from wildfire and make substantial revenue every year. Fire Radio airs Monday, March 2nd at 7 pm.
Many of us have been solicited by or been victimized by scammers. The nature, variety and complexity of schemes designed to defraud us of our savings and assets have increased exponentially. But we may not be aware that scam operations are often part of multi-national networks that bilk unsuspecting victims of over a trillion dollars a year and that the people contacting us are frequently victims as much as the people they scam. On this month’s live “Global Stuff,” host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Martha Mendoza, an Investigative Journalist and PBS Frontline Reporter who moderated a panel on Scams and Scammers as part of the 14th Global Investigative Journalism Conference in December. She can discuss this increasing threat run by criminal organizations that can even influence control over the governments in the countries where they operate. You can join the conversation. That’s Friday February 27 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.