Community Safety & Awareness Report-August 19, 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 19th, Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte and Trinity and Counties have suspended all burns at this time.
The North Coast Growers Association is hosting (the Old Town Farmers’ Market from 10 until 1pm,) the Fortuna Farmers’ Market from 3 until 6pm (and Shelter Cove Farmers’ Market from 11 until 3pm.)
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in (McKinleyville from 10 until 3:00pm,) Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; (and Garberville from 10:30 until noon. )
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles will be at Safeway in Crescent City from 1 to 6pm, and the Department of Health and Human Services, 929 Koster St, 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 9 until noon; Comptche from 2 until 4pm; and the Village of Mendocino from 1:30 until 3pm.
(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 12:30.
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 KMUD Board of Directors will meet tomorrow, Wednesday, August 20th, at 5:30pm, 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
Today, between noon and 3 pm, you can recharge at the Redway Baptist Church, 1055 Redway Drive 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. If you have donations of food or supplies to offer or need additional information call 707-223-1560
You are invited to tune in to KMUD tonight from 7 to 8pm, to join Lois Cordova, for Talking Trash, Our Plastic Catastrophe. Join the ongoing conversation about plastic pollution, and how we’ve trashed our planet. You can join the conversation by calling in to 707-923-3911. That’s Talking Trash, Our Plastic Catastrophe tonight on Redwood Community Radio between 7 and 8pm only on KMUD.
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.
