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In this issue of Rolling with Ankeny
- 🎶 A loaded weekend before the heat lands
- 🥎 A state record on the clock
- 🌦️ Mild now, 95° by Sunday
- 📅 What's on today + this weekend
- 🏠 Spotlight: Massage Heights Ankeny
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Bank the next three days outside — because Sunday, summer stops playing nice. A mild, sit-on-the-patio stretch runs Thursday through Saturday before back-to-back mid-90s slam the metro to close the weekend. Good news: tonight kicks off a four-day run of free, outdoor Ankeny. Let's roll. 🚲
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🎶 A loaded weekend before the heat lands
You've got a rare window: three comfortable days, then a wall. Spend them outside.
It starts tonight at Beats & Eats (5–7:30 p.m. at the AMP) — the band is Black Top, there's an inflatable axe-throw and basketball setup for the kids, and six food trucks roll in, from Karam's Grill to Sweet Swirls ice cream. Friday brings Sips & Songs back to The District (6–10 p.m.) and a teen mystery night at the library. Saturday morning, the Uptown Farmers Market fills the AMP from 8 to noon — the smart move before the afternoon warms up.
Then the script flips. Sunday and Monday climb into the mid-90s, so save the heavy yard work and point the family at Cascade Falls or Prairie Ridge — both pools are open all summer. Full event slate and times below.
📍 Source: City of Ankeny — Beats & Eats
🥎 A state record on the clock
The most fun thing in Ankeny sports right now is a number. Centennial softball tied the all-time Iowa single-season home-run record — 61 — on Monday, then kept mashing: the second-ranked Jaguars swept Wednesday's crosstown doubleheader at Ankeny, 9–1 and 15–7, for their 21st straight win. They're 28–1 and back at it fast, with a doubleheader tonight at Waukee Northwest (the only team to beat them all year) and another Friday vs. Iowa City Liberty — plenty of swings to break the mark outright.
Across town, the Ankeny Hawkettes pulled an upset of their own, rallying past No. 8 Dowling Catholic, 11–9, on the road.
🌦️ Weather: three good days, then the wall
Today (Thursday): Partly sunny, high near 78°, light north wind.
Friday: A quick chance of showers before 8 a.m., then partly sunny, high near 78°.
Saturday: Partly sunny, high near 82° — breezy.
Sunday–Monday: The heat returns hard. Sunny and breezy, high near 94° Sunday, then 95° and windy Monday.
One reminder as the lawn bakes: the Stage 3 nitrate lawn-watering ban is still in effect, so the sprinklers stay off no matter how brown it gets.
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📅 Around Ankeny this week
Today (Thursday, June 25):
🎶 Beats & Eats · 5:00–7:30 p.m. · AMP – Ankeny Market & Pavilion, 715 W 1st St · Black Top live + food trucks, free · Details
✂️ Chamber Ribbon Cutting — Residence Inn by Marriott · 4:30–5:00 p.m. · 1515 SW Main St · Details
🤠 NASH Nights · 5:30–9:00 p.m. · The District at Prairie Trail, 1500 SW Main St · Details
Friday, June 26:
🎵 Sips & Songs · 6:00–10:00 p.m. · The District at Prairie Trail, 1500 SW Main St · Details
🕵️ Late Night at the Library: Blood in the Clocktower · 6:00–9:00 p.m. · Kirkendall Public Library, Meeting Room A · grades 5–12, registration required · Library calendar
🎳 B-Roll Bowling · 6:30–9:30 p.m. · B&B Theatres Ankeny 12, 1580 SW Market St · Details
Saturday, June 27:
🧺 Uptown Farmers Market · 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. · AMP – Ankeny Market & Pavilion, 715 W 1st St · Details
🧬 DNA for Family History Research: What's It All About? · 1:00 p.m. · Kirkendall Public Library · free intro to using DNA for genealogy — sponsored by the Ankeny Genealogical Chapter · Library calendar
Still going: the Summer Library Program halfway giveaway runs through June 29 — hit the program's midpoint at Kirkendall and take home a free book. Details
🏠 Local Business Spotlight: Massage Heights Ankeny
Most massage places sell you one session at a time. Massage Heights Ankeny sells a habit.
It's a membership studio: the core plan books you one 60-minute massage every month — aromatherapy included — and you build from there with skin-care facials and add-ons the studio calls "Elevations," like hot-stone therapy, a revitalizing face massage, or a reviving foot scrub. The whole idea is to make bodywork a standing part of your routine instead of a once-a-year splurge. Plans run in 3-, 6-, or 12-month terms (pay monthly or prepay), and massage and skin care share one roof off SE Delaware.
The basics:
💆 Membership-based massage + skin-care studio — the Ankeny location of the national Massage Heights brand
🎁 Running now: buy $150 in gift cards, get a free 60-minute service (in-store offer)
📍 2732 SE Delaware Ave, Suite 260, Ankeny · ☎️ (515) 325-8416
⚡ Today's Takeaway
Three patio-perfect days are about to give way to the summer's first real scorcher — get your outdoor weekend in Thursday through Saturday, because Sunday and Monday hit the mid-90s. And keep an eye on Centennial softball: the all-time state home-run record could fall any swing now.
Friday: the weekend's full event slate, plus the restaurant we've been saving for a hot summer night.
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