Community Safety and Awareness Report, WEDNESDAY JULY 9TH, 2025
Community Safety and Awareness Report
Wednesday, July 9th, 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.
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 will be hosting food distributions around Humboldt County today:
The Eureka Choice Pantry located at 307 W 14th Street will be open from 10 am until 3:45 pm today.
The Arcata Pantry at 501 9th Street is open today from 4 to 6 pm.
The McKinleyville Pantry at 1615 Heartwood Dr. will be open from 10 am until 3 pm. In Fortuna, the pantry at 2292 Newburg Road will be open from 10 am – noon today.
The Mobile Produce Pantry will be at the Rio Dell Volunteer Fire Department today between 10am and 12:30pm.
And in Garberville, the pantry at 797 Locust St will be hosting a distribution from 1030am to noon.
Mendocino County residents, the Willits Food Bank will be hosting a food distribution from 1-430 pm at 344 Railroad Avenue in Willits. Call 459-3333 for details. The Fort Bragg Food Bank will be hosting a food distribution from 10 am until 5:30 pm today at 910 north Franklin Street in Fort Bragg.
For a hot meal, residents can visit the Willits Daily Bread, Monday thru Thursday for Dinner, from 5:30-6:30pm located at 111 East Commercial Street in Willits. For info, call 459-3947. Seniors in Willits can participate in the Willits Seniors Home Meal Delivery program, Monday through Friday. Contact 459-6826 if you’d like information on this program.
Hot meals are provided Monday through Friday at the following locations:
- Willits Senior Center from 11:45 to 1pm
- Plowshares Peace and Justice Center in Ukiah from 11:30 until noon.
- Mendocino Coast Hospitality House in Fort Bragg at 3pm
- Redwood Coast Seniors Center in Fort Bragg from 11:30 until 1:15pm.
The Mendocino Food and Nutrition Program will be hosting a drive-thru pop up for fresh, premade food distribution in Covelo tomorrow at 76300 Grange Street from 12 noon to 1 pm. Swing by for a delicious premade meal.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobile will be at the Ferndale Volunteer Fire Department located at 436 Brown Street from 4 to 7:30 pm. 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
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.
The KMUD Board of Directors will meet next Wednesday, July 16th, at 3 pm, via Zoom. To attend the meeting, find zoom information on the agenda posted before the meeting at wordpress-1438018-5376424.cloudwaysapps.com, or, e-mail membership@wordpress-1438018-5376424.cloudwaysapps.com. If you wish to address the Board at Open Time, please e-mail your statement to board@wordpress-1438018-5376424.cloudwaysapps.com
Today, Wednesday, July 9th, 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.
