Community Safety & Awareness Report-August 12, 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, Tuesday, August 12th, Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte and Trinity and Counties have suspended all burns at this time.
Until Mid-August, The Humboldt County Department of Public Works is 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.
CalTrans reports the ongoing full closure of the Northbound 101 Off-Ramp at Redcrest due to drainage work. The Off-Ramp opens after 7pm.
County of Humboldt’s Public Works Department has issued the following: work continues on a slurry seal project throughout McKinleyville today and tomorrow. Work will take place between 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Expect extended delays greater than 30 minutes with one-lane controlled traffic.
(The North Coast Growers Association is hosting the Old Town Farmers’Market from 10 until 1pm;) Fortuna Farmers’ Market from 3 until 6pm; and, (Shelter Cover Farmers’ Market from 11 to 3pm. )
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in McKinleyville from10 until 3pm; Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; (and Garberville from 10:30 until noon.)
The Food for People Mobile Produce Pantry will be in Redway today from 10:30 until 12:30pm at First Baptist Church Redway, 1055 Redway Dr.
Today, and every Tuesday, between noon and 3 pm, you can recharge at the First Baptist Church in Redway. For those living without a home, Bridging the Gap Ministries will welcome you for a hot meal, electronics recharging, warm clothing, and, as needed, there’s limited outdoor living supplies available. Get recharged every Tuesday, that’s today, from noon to 3pm at the Redway Baptist Church at 1055 Redway Drive. If you have donations of food or warm coats to offer or need additional information call 707-223-1560
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobile will be at the Safeway in Arcata from 10 until 4pm and Humboldt County Office of Education, 901 Myrtle Avenue, in Eureka from 10 until 3pm. To schedule an appointment to donate, visit nccbb.net.
In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting food distributions in Ukiah from 10 until noon; (Mendocino from 1:30 until 3pm;) and Comptsche from 2 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. Every Monday, the Trinity Lutheran Church in Fort Bragg distributes bagged lunches from noon until 12:30pm.
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.
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors meets today at 9:00 AM in the Board Chambers located at the Humboldt County Courthouse at 825 5th Street in Eureka. For more information including public comment procedures and agenda details, visit humboldt gov DOT org (humboldtgov.org) or call 707-476-2390.
KMUD’s Community Advisory Board will hold its next meeting at the station and on the internet, on Thursday August 14th at 5pm. The CAB would love to hear from listeners from far and wide! Please join us to share your thoughts and ideas about KMUD. For the virtual meeting link, email cab@kmud.org. That’s the Community Advisory Board of Redwood Community Radio, Thursday,August 14th at 5 pm.
On this week’s KMUD Environment Show, guest host Alicia Littletree Bales will give a report back from this weekend’s Coho Confab gathering on the Mid Klamath River, hosted by the Salmonid Restoration Federation, with great news about the effects of Dam Removal and more. She’ll also have an update on efforts to rollback a new law that made the Great Redwood Trail project exempt from CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act. AB 131 did away with environmental review and tribal consultation on the GRT other projects, and the legislature has until August 18 to fix it with clean-up legislation.
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.
