Community Safety and Awareness Report
Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
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, October 23rd, 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.
The North Coast Growers Association is hosting McKinleyville Farmers’Market from 3 to 6pm (and the Henderson Center Farmers’Market from 10 until 1:30pm.)
(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 mobiles will be in Eureka at the College of the Redwoods, 7351 Tompkin Hill Rd., from 10am to 4pm and the Eureka City Hall, 531 K St., from 10 to 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 9 until 2pm and the Laytonville 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.
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.