Community Safety & Awareness Report-Sept.24, 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 24th, 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;) Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; Arcata from 4 until 6pm; (Fortuna from 10 until noon; Petrolia from 11 until noon;) Honeydew from 3 until 4pm; and Garberville from 2 until 4pm.
(The Food for People mobile pantry will be at the HUPA Shopping Center, 12509 Hoopa, from 10 until noon today.)
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles will be hosted by Redwood Capital Bank at their Fortuna and Eureka locations. Their main branch, 402 G St., Eureka, from 10 until 4pm and 1075 S Fortuna Blvd Suite A in Fortuna from 10 until 4pm. And as always, the 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 noon until 4pm; Fort Bragg from 10 until 3:45pm; and Willits from 1:30 until 4pm.
(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 can help to keep our community trash-free by joining the Eel River Clean-up Project tomorrow, and now, every Thursday. Join ERCP tomorrow at 9:30am at the Garberville Vet’s Park, across from Dazey’s, to help keep Southern Humboldt roadsides trash free.
You are invited to tune in to KMUD tonight from 7 to 8 for Homegrown Tomatoes with Bettye and Nadine. You may call 707-923-3911 to join the conversation about all things gardening. That’s Homegrown Tomatoes tonight between 7 and 8 pm only on KMUD.
Tomorrow morning at 9am, The Choice is Yours with your hosts Sheila, Doro, and Dani bring the receipts on a topic they’ve spent time researching that help consumers make informed choices. That’s The Choice is Yours, the fourth Thursday of the month at 9am, only 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.
