Community Safety & Awareness Report-August 7, 2025
Thursday, August 7th, 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 7th, 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 Southbound 101 On-Ramp’s Full Closure From Hooker Creek Rd. due to drainage work and is expected to end this evening by 7pm.
The North Coast Growers Association is hosting the (Henderson Center Farmers’ Market from 10 until 1:30) and the McKinleyville Farmers’ Market from 3 until 6pm today.
(In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in McKinleyville from 10 until 3:00pm; Willow Creek from 10 until noon; Garberville from 10:30 until noon: and in Myers Flat from noon until 3pm)
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles will be at Mad River’s Rotary Drive held at Luzmila’s Mexican Restaurant, 1751 Central Ave, McKinleyville from 10:00am – 4:00pm and at Paul’s Live from New York Pizza, 101 12th St, in Fortuna from 2:00 – 7:00pm. To schedule an appointment to donate, visit nccbb.net.
(Today, the AHHA Care-A-Van will be in Arcata at the Transit Center Parking lot from 10 until 3pm. AHHA Care-A-Van is a three-bathroom trailer with showers. They also distribute clothing, food, and hygiene supplies and help individuals connect with services.)
(In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting food distributions in Ukiah from 9 until 2pm and the Willits PopUp from 10:30 until noon.)
(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.
Join Sue Moloney on Off the Cuff tonight at 7pm. That’s Thursday night at 7pm right here on Redwood Community Radio. Tune in. Listen In. Call in.
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.
