Community Safety & Awareness Report-Sept. 3, 2025

Wednesday, September 3rd, 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, Wednesday, September 3rd,  Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte and Trinity Counties have suspended all burns at this time. 

In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in (McKinleyville from 10 until 3pm;) Arcata from 4 until 6pm; Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; (Fortuna from 10 until noon;) and Garberville from 2 until 4pm. 

(The Food for People Mobile Pantry will be in Fortuna, at the Fortuna Adventist Community Services, 2331 Rohnerville Rd, from 10 until 12:30pm)

The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles will be at McKinleyville Shopping Center from 10 to 4pm and at the North Coast Co-op in Arcata from 11 until 5pm.  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; and Willits from 1 until 4:30pm. 

(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.

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, Redwood Community Radio, Wednesday, August 6th from 7pm to 8pm, for the Civil Liberties Hour with Bonnie Blackberry. Tune in, listen in, and then call in if you have any questions or comments

Next Friday, September 12th, The SoHum Health Mobile Medical Unit will be in Shelter Cove at the RID Clubhouse.  The clinic will be offering primary care, wellness exams, sick visits, minor wound care, vaccines, outpatient referrals and more. Save yourself a trip to town and go to the mobile clinic in Shelter Cove. You are invited to call 707-923-3921 x 1221 to make your appointment today.

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.