The long-awaited Porto’s Bakery & Cafe is one step nearer to serving up its pastries, desserts and famed potato balls for guests heading to the “Happiest Place on Earth.”

Disney filed demolition permits this month for the constructing that beforehand housed La Brea Bakery in Downtown Disney simply steps away from the doorway to Disney California Journey and Disneyland. The positioning, which presently homes Earl of Sandwich, would be the future dwelling of the seventh Porto’s Bakery location in Southern California.

The situation will get enormous foot visitors. In 2023, at the least 27 million guests streamed by way of the procuring district often called Downtown Disney to enter Disneyland and Disney California Journey, in line with an annual report by the consulting agency Aecom and the Themed Leisure Assn.

Porto’s Bakery, which began in a small area in a Silver Lake strip mall in 1976 as an extension of founder Rosa Porto’s enterprise in Cuba, has been a beloved establishment in Los Angeles for many years. Traces on the bakery’s six areas steadily snake out the doorways on weekends and its yellow boxes stuffed with pastries often make appearances on flights out of Los Angeles.

A whole bunch of followers swarmed Buena Park when the Cuban bakery opened its first Orange County location in 2017.

The allow filed with the Anaheim Planning and Constructing Division requires tearing down the two,610-square-foot bakery and restaurant and eradicating two theme park ticket cubicles. The utilities might be capped and the foundations eliminated on every website, in line with metropolis information.

It’s not clear when the Porto’s Bakery location in Anaheim will open its doorways. Disney officers and Porto’s representatives didn’t instantly return emails looking for remark.

The announcement of a spot in Downtown Disney in 2022 generated a lot pleasure. La Brea Bakery shuttered the next 12 months to make method for the beloved Los Angeles establishment, however building didn’t instantly begin.

The delay prompted rumors that Porto’s had deserted the plan for the location, however the bakery put folks’s minds comfortable final 12 months with an announcement that it would be arriving at the outdoor shopping mall in 2025.

Dakota Meyer, a Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism within the Afghanistan Conflict however later grew to become a pointy critic of the Biden administration over its chaotic withdrawal from that battle, is reenlisting within the navy and can serve within the Marine Reserves.

In a briefing with reporters on Thursday earlier than his reenlistment ceremony, 36-year-old Meyer mentioned he’s returning to navy service after 15 years out of uniform as a result of he felt he “had extra to present.” He is additionally near President Trump’s protection secretary, Pete Hegseth.

However Meyer mentioned he would chorus from politics whereas in uniform.

“The good half about being within the reserves is I am nonetheless a citizen once I’m not on orders,” he mentioned. “Once I’m on orders I am going to comply clearly with no matter the usual is.”

In short remarks throughout the ceremony, Hegseth mentioned Meyer’s reenlistment is “not frequent apply” and the Marine Corps “does not do issues like this calmly,” however praised Meyer’s “unusual valor.” Hegseth mentioned the reenlistment reveals “you are by no means too outdated, you are by no means too skilled, you’ve got by no means finished an excessive amount of that you would be able to’t proceed to contribute.”

Initially from Kentucky, Meyer was awarded the Medal of Honor, the navy’s highest honor, by then-President Barack Obama in 2011 for his heroics in Afghanistan when he charged 5 instances in a Humvee into heavy gunfire to rescue comrades underneath assault by Taliban insurgents.

On Sept. 8, 2009, Meyer was a part of a safety group supporting a patrol transferring right into a village within the Ganjgal Valley. Instantly, the lights in a close-by village went out and gunfire erupted. About 50 Taliban insurgents on mountainsides and within the village had ambushed the patrol.

His actions throughout the six-hour assault and firefight saved the lives of 36 individuals, each Individuals and Afghans. He killed a minimum of eight Taliban insurgents. Firing from a gun turret on high of a Humvee pushed by a fellow Marine, he offered cowl for his group, permitting many to flee possible demise.

Meyer described the events in a 2011 interview with CBS Information’ “60 Minutes,” telling correspondent David Martin, “I did not suppose I used to be going to die. I knew I used to be.”

4 American troopers died within the ambush: 1st Lt. Michael Johnson, 25, from Virginia Seaside, Virginia; Employees Sgt. Aaron Kenefick, 30, of Roswell, Georgia; Corpsman James Layton, 22, of Riverbank, California; and Edwin Wayne Johnson Jr., a 31-year-old gunnery sergeant from Columbus, Georgia. A fifth man, Military Sgt. Kenneth W. Westbrook, 41, of Shiprock, New Mexico, died later from his wounds.

After leaving the navy, Meyer remained within the highlight. In 2016 he married former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, and so they had two kids. Years later, in 2019, he instructed “60 Minutes” about his expertise with a new post-traumatic stress disorder treatment.

He is been outspoken concerning the jailing of one other Marine — Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller — who criticized the Biden administration for the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan in social media posts whereas in uniform, which is a violation of navy conduct.