Community Safety & Awareness Report-May 19, 2025

Monday, May 19th, 2025

KMUD’s new Community Resources and Calendar page is now live on the KMUD website, wordpress-1438018-5376424.cloudwaysapps.com, under the COMMUNITY dropdown menu. Our improved calendar provides up to date information for farmers markets, food distributions, public meals, blood drives and other community services. This public calendar allows our community members to better plan their days; providers can share and sync their organization’s google calendar. Moving forward, we will continue to add events and information that benefit our community.

Today, the North Coast Growers Association is hosting the Miranda Farmers’ Market from 2 to 6pm. Tomorrow’s markets are in Shelter Cove and Fortuna. Please visit our website for all the details. 

In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting distributions in McKinleyville from 10am  until 3pm and Fortuna from 10 am until noon. 

The North Coast Co-op in Arcata is hosting a blood drive from noon to 6pm.

In Mendocino, the Fort Bragg Food Bank is open from 10 until 3:45pm. (No need to read the following morning or lunch announcements at 3pm.)  Lunches are provided for seniors at the Willits Senior Center and the Redwood Coast Seniors Center in Fort Bragg from 11:30 until 1:15pm. Bagged lunches are available at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Fort Bragg from noon until 12:30. 

Meals are provided at Willits Daily Bread from 4:30 to 5:30pm.

The KMUD Board of Directors will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20th, at 3 pm, via Zoom. To attend the meeting, find zoom information on the agenda posted before the meeting at wordpress-1438018-5376424.cloudwaysapps.com, or, e-mail membership@wordpress-1438018-5376424.cloudwaysapps.com. If you wish to address the Board at Open Time, please e-mail your statement to board@wordpress-1438018-5376424.cloudwaysapps.com

Remember to tune in to KMUD this afternoon from 5 to 6pm for The Cannabis Show with your hosts Steve Dodge and Sunshine Cereceda. You can join the conversation by calling 707-923-3911. Today, May 19th, Sunshine and Steve will interview Steve D’Angelo. Don’t miss it.Tune in, listen in, call in, this afternoon beginning at 5pm.

You are invited to tune in to KMUD, tonight from 7 to 8pm, for La Semilla with Brenda Perez of Centro Del Pueblo. That’s La Semilla tonight only on the MUD, Redwood Community Radio between 7 and 8pm. 

Reminder, burn permits are required for ALL open burning. Burn hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Burn piles are limited to 4’ x 4’, unless otherwise stated by a fire agency. You can only burn vegetative matter. 

Today, Monday,  May 19th, is a permissive burn day in Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte, and Trinity counties.

As of May 1st, , the CAL FIRE Humboldt – Del Norte Unit requires both Standard and Non-Standard Burn Permit holders in State Responsibility Areas, to also obtain a CAL FIRE Burn Permit. A North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District (NCUAQMD) burn permit is still required year-round and contains the permittee’s designated burn zone.

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 new community resources and calendar page for up to date and detailed information of all the services our community offers.