Community Safety & Awareness Report-Sept.26, 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, Friday, September 26th, Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte and Trinity Counties have suspended all burns at this time.
(The North Coast Growers Association is hosting the Garberville Farmers’ Market from 11 until 3pm.)
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm (and in Loleta at 1000 Wiyot Dr. from 10 until noon and at Bear River, 263 Keisner, from 11 until 12:30pm.)
The Northern California Community Blood Bank blood mobiles will be at the McKinleyville Shopping Center from 10 until 4pm and in Loleta, at Jersey Scoops, 348 Main St., from 11 until 4pm. And as always, the blood bank is open Monday thru Friday, located at 2524 Harrison Avenue in Eureka. To schedule an appointment to donate, visit nccbb.net.
In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting food distributions in Fort Bragg from 10 until 3:45pm; Ukiah from noon until 4pm; Willits from 1until 4:30pm; Point Arena from 2 until 5pm; and Potter Valley from 2 until 4pm.
(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.
Tonight, on this month’s Global Stuff, host Jimmy Durchslag interviews Raed Jarrar (RAH-eed Jah-RARR) advocacy Director for DAWN, founded by slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi (Kah-SHOW-ghee). DAWN is an organization that works to reform U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa and to hold human rights abusers accountable. It has published an open letter asking the United Nations to deploy a multilateral protection force in Gaza. Meanwhile the situation there continues to escalate as Israel seeks to empty Gaza City and take over complete control of the region and its citizens. Raed will update the situation and discuss any possibility for to deliver aid to its suffering citizens. You can join the conversation. That’s Friday, September 26 at 7 PM, right here 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.
