Community Safety & Awareness Report-August 14, 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, August 14th,  Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte and Trinity and Counties have suspended all burns at this time. 

The North Coast Growers Association is hosting the McKinleyville Farmers’ Market from 3 until 6pm (and the Henderson Center Farmers’ Market from 10 to 1:30pm.)

In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in McKinleyville from 10 until 3pm; Willow Creek from 10 until noon; and Garberville, from 10:30 until noon. 

The Food for People Mobile Produce Pantry will be in Orleans, at 459 Asip Rd,  from  11:00am – 1:00pm. 

The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles will be at the McKinleyville Shopping Center from 10 until 4pm and the California Conservation Corps, 1500 Alamar Way, Fortuna from 4 until 8pm. 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 Covelo PopUp, 76300 Grange St, 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.

KMUD’s Community Advisory Board will hold its next meeting at the station and on Zoom, today 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.

The KMUD Board of Directors will meet next Tuesday, August 20th, via Zoom. To attend the meeting, find zoom information on the agenda posted before the meeting at kmud.org, or, e-mail membership@kmud.org. If you wish to address the Board at Open Time, please e-mail your statement to board@kmud.org

You are invited to tune in to KMUD, Redwood Community Radio, tonight from 7 to 8pm, for the Dishgamu Humboldt with David Cobb, and Michelle Vassel of the Wiyot Tribe.Tune in and be informed. Questions and comments are welcome by calling in at 707-923-3911. That’s the Dishgamu Humboldt tonight between 7 and 8PM only 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.