The Lakeside Patio We've Been Saving

Ankeny hands you two patio-perfect nights this weekend — then Sunday slams the door at 93°. We're spending one of them at a lakeside table we've been saving for exactly this kind of evening, with a free outdoor movie and a Saturday-morning market to round it out. Let's roll. 🚲

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Most Ankeny patios look out on a parking lot or a street. District 36 looks out on a lake.

Tucked into The District at Prairie Trail at 1375 SW Vintage Pkwy, this locally owned wine bar and American grille has been pouring since 2016, and its patio faces the water at Prairie Trail — which makes it the move for a warm Friday or Saturday night before Sunday's heat lands. Think a deep wine list paired with a from-scratch grille menu (short ribs, ribeye, pollo farfalle, fresh fish), the kind of spot you linger at rather than rush through.

One catch worth knowing: District 36 is closed Sundays. Friday and Saturday are your window — which happens to line up exactly with the only two comfortable evenings on the forecast.

The basics:

📍 Source: District 36 Wine Bar & Grille

Friday, June 26

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Sunday, June 28

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

The good weather has an expiration date this weekend. Get outside Friday and Saturday — Sunday and Monday turn into the summer's first real scorcher.

📍 NWS Des Moines forecast for Ankeny

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Here's a home fix most people don't think about until it's overflowing in a downpour — and a family crew worth keeping in your phone for it.

JC's Seamless Gutters, run by Jamie Cleveland out of Nevada, Iowa, does exactly what the name says. "Seamless" means the gutters aren't snapped together from pre-cut pieces that leak at every joint — the crew rolls and forms each run on-site in one continuous length, cut to fit your house, so there's less to clog and less to leak over the years. Estimates are free, which makes them an easy second quote when you're pricing out a gutter job. They're a small family operation based a short drive up Highway 30, northeast of the metro.

The basics:

This was a quiet week at City Hall — no council meeting, the next one not until July 6 — which makes the weekend the headline: two mild nights to spend outside before Sunday and Monday push into the mid-90s. Book the patio, catch the movie, ride the trail early.

Monday: how the weekend went, plus the week ahead at City Council.

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