Community Safety and Awareness Report-July 2, 2025
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025
KMUD’s new Community Resources and Calendar page is now live on the KMUD website, wordpress-1438018-5376424.cloudwaysapps.com, under the COMMUNITY dropdown menu. Our improved calendar provides up to date information for farmers markets, food distributions, public meals, blood drives and other community services. This public calendar allows our community members to better plan their days; providers can share and sync their organization’s google calendar. Moving forward, we will continue to add events and information that benefit our community.
-CalTrans reports Route 36 to Remain Closed until further notice in Humboldt County as Crews Work to Clear Landslide. Caltrans District 1 and its contractors are working to stabilize and clear a large landslide that fully closed State Route (SR) 36 east of Swimmer’s Delight near Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park on May 31.
Beginning on Monday, July 7th, The Humboldt County Department of Public Works will be 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. If you have any concerns or questions, please contact Resident Engineer Angi Sorensen at (707) 445-7448.
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in McKinleyville from 10 until 3:00pm; Arcata from 4 until 6pm; Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; Fortuna, at 22 Newburg Rd from 10 until noon and in Garberville from 2 until 4pm. The Mobile Pantry is in Fortuna today at the Fortuna Adventist Community Services, 2231 Rohnerville Rd, from 10 until 12:30pm.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles will be at the Del Norte Sheriff’s Office, at 650 5th Street in Crescent City from 11 until 4pm, and the McKinleyville Shopping Center from 11 until 5pm.
In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting food distributions at the Fort Bragg Food Bank from 10 until 3:45pm; at the Ukiah Food Bank from noon until 4pm; and, at the Willits Community Services and Food Bank 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, tonight from 7 to 8pm, for the Civil Liberties Hour with your host Bonnie Blackberry. Questions and comments are welcome by calling in at 707-923-3911. That’s The Civil Liberties Hour tonight between 7 and 8pm only on K-M-U-D.
County of Humboldt offices will be closed on Friday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day. Public lobbies will be closed and essential services such as law enforcement and emergency operations will remain functional. Regular office hours will resume on Monday, July 7.
Today, Wednesday, July 2nd, Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte and Trinity and Counties have suspended all burns at this time.
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 new community resources and calendar page for up to date and detailed information of all the services our community offers, including a new, exhaustive 88- page compilation from the DHHS.
