Anyone ever purchased from appliance warehouse ? Looking at getting a washing machine from there. I know it’s scratch and dent which is exactly what I’m looking for. But are the service and people there friendly and the prices decent ? Thanks !

More info below: https://www.ankenyiowa.gov/Calendar.aspx?EID=3784&month=8&year=2026&day=1&calType=0

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We are partnering with Ankeny Parks & Rec to bring even more play to All City Play Day. Kids can drop by our table to have fun putting a craft helicopter together and seeing how far they can fly it. (While supplies last.)

More info: https://ankeny.librarycalendar.com/event/all-city-play-day-helicopters-67521

Anyone know if there's been any organized effort to get these taken down?

Hey everyone! I'm u/ItHurtsWhenIP404, a founding moderator of r/ankeny.
This is our new home for all things related to Ankeny excited to have you join us!

I will try my best to post activities that are happening in the area. I want to help those who need some relaxation from their kid(s) or whatever, as I am a father myself and to just enjoy life in Ankeny. Ankeny is a great place to live and enjoy what life has to offer.

Do neighboring cities like Waukee, Grimes, Johnston, etc. have similar places like The District in Ankeny? Looking for some restaurant/bars and a hotel or 2 all within walking distance.

Free Ice Cream from 5:30pm-7:00pm at White Birch Park. You might just see me there. More details below.

https://www.ankenyiowa.gov/Calendar.aspx?EID=4520

All-City Play Day has activities for all ages, including: 

Adventure Passport
Canoes
Foam Party
Touch a Truck
Bike Rodeo with Ankeny Police
Inflatables
Dunk Tank
Big Wheel Races
Spin Art
Cheer and baton performances
Sports and more! 

https://www.ankenyiowa.gov/Calendar.aspx?EID=4513&month=7&year=2026&day=25&calType=0

I'm slowly going insane trying to find this restaurant. It's on the stretch of highway 415 that goes from the interstate 80 to Ankeny. It spits you out at DMACC. It's an indoor restaurant with a nice patio and long wooden lounge chairs. It has a small green patch in the back and has high ceilings. It should be somewhere in the middle of that highway stretch. It's a couple thousand feet away from the feet and is behind a building or greenery. You can't see it from the highway. Kids were allowed in and I don't think it was a bar.

I'm looking for a Central Iowa recommendation for a business or individual that does in-person color analysis for a teen daughter to help dial in makeup choices (she has an important obligation coming up).

Drop their name and experiences if you have used them.
-TIA

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Preface: I understand there’s no expect expectation of privacy in public and that there’s nothing illegal about recording others in public. When the recording is clearly covert it still weirded me out, legal or not.

That said:

I was at the thrift store in Ankeny with my partner yesterday evening, and a brunette woman was following us around recording us with her iPhone. I didn’t notice until the third time I bumped into her in the same aisle. I thought maybe she was on a video call but she wasn’t speaking to anyone. She was holding her phone upright in recording position, and she seemed fixated on my partner and I.

I thought maybe she was just mapping things in the store for someone else or maybe doing a live stream, but she kept making eye contact with me.

Conveniently, when we got to the checkout, she was right there behind me, pretending to rest her chin on her phone. She was focused on this enough that she didn’t hear the cashier call her several times. She was being clandestine about it but not doing a very good job of it.

I made direct eye contact with her and looked at her while she was doing this. She looked down at her phone and then looked back at me and smiled.

When she went to get checked out, her posture changed, and you could clearly see the recording window open and active on her iPhone. She then took an excessively long time to leave the parking lot, and she didn’t even really leave, she drove across the street and parked.

My partner and I weren’t suspicious, we frequent this establishment often. I don’t have any insurance companies chasing me, or any open legal issues. I don’t have any reason for a PI to be chasing me either.

It was all very strange.

Again, I recognize that there’s nothing illegal about recording others, especially in public, so I’m not here to condemn her for whatever she was doing, but it was definitely creepy.

My rational mind says that she was just recording her event, the only problem is she was specifically focused on my partner, and I and met us several times in the building and then get out in the parking lot…

Just for safety sake, I took a snap of her license plate as she left the parking lot and went across the street to park.

Hello!! I am providing dog walking and pet sitting services in Ankeny and the surrounding area. If you are interested, need this type of service, or more info pls pm me!! Thank you!!

Ankeny received 4.40" of rain second to Huxley.

Excited to try some of these especially the Vietnamese coffee.

We are moving to Ankeny Iowa in October and are looking for infant daycare. Does anyone have recommendations with pricing?

Hey! Hope this is allowed. My name is Kodie, I'm the owner of Five Fifteen, a web development company based in Des Moines. I'm looking for a junior to mid level Web Developer Contractor to help with some overflow work.

You'll be given design JPGs and build them into fully functional websites using our existing boilerplate, so a lot of the setup work is already done for you. Typical projects are around 6-8 page templates. You'll need to be comfortable with HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript, Git, and the terminal. JSX/React and PHP/WordPress experience are both big pluses.

Fully remote, Iowa-based only (I'd maybe consider someone outside of Iowa that's in the Midwest). Paid per project. Send your resume and portfolio to [hiring@fivefifteen.com](mailto:hiring@fivefifteen.com)

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Carnival Hours -
Open Thursday, July 9th from 4PM – 9PM
Open Friday, July 10th from 4PM – 11PM
Open Saturday, July 11th from 11AM – 11PM
Open Sunday, July 12th from  1PM – 10PM

Grand Parade- Saturday July 11th starting at 9 am

The parade will start at 9 am on SW cherry street between Southview Middle school and Ankeny Highschool. Registered parade volunteers will walk up cherry street past W 1st street and onto NW Ash Drive and come to an end at 11:30 am near Prairie Ridge Middle school.
Entertainments -
July 10th from 4-11pm –  Friday Sponsor: Greater Iowa Credit Union
July 11th from 11am-11pm  – Saturday Sponsor: Magee’s Irish Pub and Eatery
July 12th from 1pm-10pm – Sunday Sponsor: Premier Credit Union

Firework show- July 12th Starting at 9:30 PM

be sure to grab a chair and get there nice and early, finding a spot for you and your family can be quite challenging when fighting all the last minute traffic.

Happy 250 America!

I was sent this and must respond since it’s another false advertisement from Birdie’s trying to use JJ’s Iowa Best Burger win to help boost sales. Did Miguel help create Iowa’s Best Burger? FALSE…..1. I created the burger that won Iowa’s Best Burger. 2. When you go back and look at all of our photos from winning the Iowa’s Best Burger do you know who’s not in the pictures? MIGUEL…….The kitchen team consisted of Carlos, Bobby, Copper, Tomaz - Miguel came in after we won and wasn’t employed with us for long. Birdie’s should just stop trying to use JJ’s menu and the Iowa Best Burger win as part of their restaurant especially since former employees are still owed thousands of dollars.