Community Safety & Awareness Report-August 11, 2025
(3pm DJs: don’t read the information in parenthesis. It’s expired)
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, Monday, August 11th, Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte and Trinity and Counties have suspended all burns at this time.
Until Mid-August, The Humboldt County Department of Public Works is repairing Bell Springs Road at Post Mile 2.20 & 4.96, north of Island Mountain Road. With an expected completion date in Mid-August. expect delays of up to 30 minutes between 7:30am and 4:30pm during this period.
CalTrans reports the ongoing full closure of the Southbound 101 On-Ramp from Hooker Creek Rd and the Northbound 101 Off-Ramp at Redcrest due to drainage work. Both ramps open after 7pm.
County of Humboldt’s Public Works Department has issued the following: work continues on a slurry seal project throughout McKinleyville today and tomorrow. Work will take place between 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Expect extended delays greater than 30 minutes with one-lane controlled traffic.
The North Coast Growers Association is hosting the Miranda Farmers’ Market from 2 until 6pm.
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in McKinleyville from10 until 3pm (and Fortuna from 10 until noon.)
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobile will be at the Rio Dell Police Department, 675 Wildwood Ave, from noon until 5pm. 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 and the Albion PopUp from 4 until 5pm.
(No need to read the following lunch announcements at 3pm.) 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. Every Monday, the Trinity Lutheran Church in Fort Bragg distributes bagged lunches from noon until 12:30pm.
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.
KMUD Community Radio’s The Cannabis Show with your hosts Steve Dodge and Sunhine Cereceda airs this Monday 8/11 from 5 to 6 PM. They will talk with Tom Kuhn, NY cannabis activist. Tune in, listen in, call in
You are invited to tune in to KMUD tonight from 7 to 8pm, for the The Politically Correct Week In Review, with Josh Golden & Charley Custer. Join the conversation. Call in! 707-923-3911. That’s The Politically Correct Week In Review tonight on Redwood Community Radio, Resistance Radio, K-M-U-D., between 7 and 8pm.
The Humboldt Board of Supervisors meets most Tuesdays, including tomorrow, August 12th, at 9 am in the Board of Supervisors Chamber at the Humboldt County Courthouse, located at 825 Fifth Street in Eureka, California. A link to view the meeting will be posted on humboldt(dot)legistar(dot)com.
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.
