Community Safety & Awareness Report
Thursday, September 25th, 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, Thursday, September 25th, Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte and Trinity Counties have suspended all burns at this time.
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 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.)
(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.
Tomorrow evening, on this month’s Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag interviews Raed Jarrar (RAH-eed Jah-RARR) advocacy Director for DAWN, founded by slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi (Kah-SHOW-ghee). DAWN is an organization that works to reform U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa and to hold human rights abusers accountable. It has published an open letter asking the United Nations to deploy a multilateral protection force in Gaza. Meanwhile the situation there continues to escalate as Israel seeks to empty Gaza City and take over complete control of the region and its citizens. Raed will update the situation and discuss any possibility for to deliver aid to its suffering citizens. You can join the conversation. That’s Friday, September 26 at 7 PM, right here 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.
