Cooking Across America

Send your future chef on a trip across America at Bodacious!

Each day of camp will explore the unique flavors of a different region in the United States. From coast to coast, your young chef will master the art of preparing popular regional meals that have become timeless favorites.

During the five-day camp, our instructors will empower campers with essential skills to foster their success, safety, and creativity in the kitchen. From mastering basic prep techniques to honing knife skills (when applicable), our campers will develop the fundamental tools of a confident chef.

AGES 6-9

June 5 – 9 & July 10 – 14

AGES 10-12

June 19 – 23 & July 24 – 28

SCHEDULE

Monday – Friday 9AM – 1PM

Drop-off at 8:45 AM daily

Graduation ceremony at 12:15 PM on Friday

Every camper gets a chef apron!

D.C. REEVES Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves secured $12.4 million in four days to help relocate American Magic's headquarters to the Port of Pensacola. On Thursday, May 11, Triumph Gulf Coast unanimously approved the city's request for $8.5 million for the design, renovation and completion of Warehouse 10. On Monday, Gov. DeSantis awarded more than $3.9 million through the governor's Florida Job Growth Grant Fund.

GINNY CRANOR Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida announced the Pensacola Fire Chief as the 2023 Beyond School Walls Big of the Year. Fire Chief Ginny Cranor has volunteered as a Beyond School Walls program mentor since Spring 2022. The Beyond School Walls program is aimed at helping students improve their chances of graduating and transitioning to the workplace and/or post-secondary education, vocational or military. Corporate partners, such as the City of Pensacola, open the doors of hope and opportunity for students by allowing them to shadow volunteer employee mentors in the workplace for a few hours each month during the school year.

W. HENRY LANGHORNE III The board-certified cardiologist was named the medical director of the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation program at Baptist Heart & Vascular Institute's AACPR-accredited cardiac program. Dr. Langhorne earned his medical degree from the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and his fellowship in cardiology at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga.

DONNA DEEGAN The Democrat, nonprofit head and former TV news anchor beat her Republican opponent, Jacksonville Chamber CEO Daniel Davis, to become Jacksonville's next mayor, 52%-48%. Deegan will be the first Democrat in the mayor's office since 2015. "Love won tonight, and we made history. We have a new day in Jacksonville because people chose unity over division—creating a broad coalition of people across the political spectrum that want a unified city," she said in a statement.

While the Pensacola mayor earned kudos for his economic development efforts, the Escambia County School Board also made headlines— but no positive ones. At an emergency meeting last week, Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. and the State Board of Education blasted them for failing to get a signed contract with Charter Schools USA for Warrington Middle School. School board members Paul Fetsko, Kevin Adams and David Williams abruptly voted to fire School Superintendent Tim Smith about 12 hours later, sending the school district into further turmoil. Then on Wednesday, May 17, the nation's largest book publisher filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the Escambia County School District and the Escambia County School Board violated the First Amendment by removing or restricting access to more than 150 library books. And those headlines hit the wire in less than 24 hours.

Last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis gave the Town of Century nearly $2 million to renovate the historic Carver Community Center, a former school building constructed in 1945 that the Escambia County School District recently transferred to the town. Unfortunately, the building will have to be demolished due to lead paint, wood rot and termites after sitting empty, neglected and unmaintained for years. The estimated cost for the repairs and hazard mitigation totaled more than $3.2 million. Town officials hope a new community center can be built for $2 million.

LAKE NONA Walt Disney Co. has canceled its plan to open a new $1 billion campus for some 2,000 employees in the Orlando community of Lake Nona. The Miami Herald reported that Disney officials emailed staff that the relocation was not happening due to "new leadership and changing business conditions." Disney workers reportedly had pushed back against the move as the state's political climate has become hostile toward the LGBTQ community under Gov. Ron DeSantis and the GOP-led state legislature. Disney recently sued DeSantis alleging a "campaign of government retaliation" for the corporation criticizing the governor's anti-woke agenda.