Community Safety & Awareness Report-May 23, 2025
Friday May 23rd, 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.
The North Coast Growers Association is hosting the Garberville Farmers’ Market from 11 until 3pm today.
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting a food distribution in Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm.
Rays Place in Fortuna is hosting a blood drive from 10 until 3pm as is the Tractor Supply in Arcata from 11 until 5pm.
In Mendocino, the Ukiah Community Food Bank is open from noon until 4:00pm. The Fort Bragg Food Bank is open from 10 until 3:45pm, the Willits Community Services and Food Bank is open from 1 until 4:30pm and, Point Arena Action Network, located at 200 Main Street, is hosting a food distribution from 2 until 5pm.
(No need to read the following morning or 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 at Willits Daily Bread from 4:30 to 5:30pm and at the Mendocino Coast Hospitality House in Fort Bragg Monday through Friday at 3pm.
On this month’s prerecorded Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag talks with Dr. Ian Lustick, the Bess W. Heyman Chair in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a well-known expert and author on the Arab-Israeli conflict. In a recent series of short videos, Dr. Lustick delivers simple, direct, and compelling truths about Israel, Palestine, and the struggles in the United States to come to terms with the Gaza War. On the show, Ian will delve further into the status of the conflict, the Trump administration’s actions and what to expect going forward. That’s Friday, May 23rd at 7 PM, right here on the Mud…
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, Friday, May 23rd, 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, including a new, exhaustive 88- page compilation from the DHHS.
