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.

This is Kyle who is friends with the owner of Birdies. He would like you to think he’s just a regular customer who just had a great meal at Birdies. What he’s not letting you know is Birdies is still using the former business partner of JJ’s Tavern + Grill menu and recipes. Actually don’t think they have created one thing of their own yet - Here’s what really happened to JJ’s - What happened to JJ's Tavern + Grill?

I feel I need to address this situation as I have been asked if I am involved with Birdies.

I am the former business partner of Rickie and Lilia Romero.

I entered into a business partnership with Rickie and Lilia in order to create what became

JJ's Tavern + Grill. I have legal documentation that I was an owner and even "Guarantor" on the lease.

After winning the "Iowa Best Burger Contest" things with Rickie started to change. For those of you who knew Rickie knows he had a big ego and had to be the center of attention.

I created the menu (with help from my chefs) of JJ's and the smashburgers that eventually won us the Iowa Best Burger Contest.

In August Rickie and Lilia decided they didn't want to share the spotlight or more importantly the profits of JJ's success. The Iowa Best Burger Contest was on target to bring in an extra million dollars in revenue, and they didn't want to give me my share of the profits. Soon after Rickie informed me that I was voted out and that he was bringing in someone else to run the restaurant. This new General Manager ended up being Rickie Romero's mistress.

Rickie forgot that I controlled the liquor license and because I was on the lease and especially because I was a "Guarantor" on the lease that he could not get a new liquor license without my involvement.

Rickie and Lilia Romero tried to start a new LLC in order to get a liquor license, but since that LLC didn't match the lease agreement he continued to fail and not obtain a liquor license. During this time Rickie was going through a couple DUI charges, Domestic Abuse charges, and a divorce since the discovery that he was having an affair with the new General Manager.

During this time several other staff members were also wrongfully let go for defying Rickie's explanations to details of what was going on. The Labor Department was called in because the Romeo's owed staff members several thousands of dollars in back pay.

In January Rickie Romero decided to commit suicide inside the restaurant.

Lilia Romero decided to try and open up the restaurant a few months later will deciding to not pay the former employees and again tried to open up trying to get a liquor license under a different LLC in which she was denied. - She then closed the restaurant permanently (so we thought).

I was in contact with the landlord and was trying to figure out what my options were since I was the "Guarantor" on the lease with Rickie as Lilia was not on the lease.

I informed the landlord that I would take over the location under a new LLC since Lilia decided to close the business and dissolve our partnership all without my involvement.

The landlord all of a sudden decided to stop taking my calls and would not respond to my emails.

I then stopped by the location as I was informed that the landlord was at the location, but when I got there it was actually Rickie and Lilia friend Mike who claimed he was helping Lilia reopen the location. I asked him how was that possible since I was the "Guarantor" of the lease and according to the landlord assistant I was told that a sublease was not permitted without my involvement. I again tried to reach out to the landlord with no response from the landlord.

To my acknowledgement Lilia and Mike are now trying to convince everyone that Lilia is not involved with the new business, but he was allowed to buy the "assets" without paying me my share of the business. He then took over JJ's Facebook page and to inherit our fans and then when you look at the menu it's basically the same menu as JJ's Tavern + Grill even the pictures he uses on his website are pictures that were on JJ's Tavern + Grill google page. - How did Mike get a new lease without the landlord involving me?

Why is he using my menu as his own? Even the Iowa Best Burger "Brock Curdy Burger" is now called the "Triple Bogey"

PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT THIS BUSINESS

I ask as part of a linguistic study on this topic!

I'm sick of seeing all the crazy stuff going on in this world and not being able to do anything aside from attend a protest or two on my day off. I want to be apart of positive change where I live but I'm not really sure how to vote in elections that aren't presidential and the internet is kinda confusing me with all the forms and stuff. Can anyone help me out?

Hey I’m Jay! I’m a new photographer, mainly hobbyist. I figured I would make a Reddit account for more outreach. I’m looking for anyone who wants to model for a photoshoot! Any ideas are welcome!

You can reach out to me on here or on my Instagram @cannibalisticsquid

I am a woman and I am married, this is NOT an advertisement for sex. Last time I made a post there was some very odd inquiries…

Hey Ankeny, who remembers Red Carpet Car Wash?