5 Things Waukee Residents Should Know: August 12

1) Get Your Workout In This Weekend

The Waukee YMCA wants to remind everyone that both gyms will be closed beginning August 15 so that the floors can be redone. The rest of the facility will be open and operational. The two gyms will reopen on August 22. For questions, call the Waukee YMCA at 987-9996.

2) The Iowa State Fair

It’s Land O’Lakes Day at the Iowa State Fair today. Visitors to the Land O’Lakes milk booth on the Grand Concourse can grab free milk samples and try their luck in a milk moustache contest. Gates open at 7 a.m. and regular admission is $10 for adults, $4 for ages 6-11 and children 5 and under are free.  

3) School Starts in Five Days

It's crunch time! Waukee Schools begin next Wednesday and this is your final weekend to buy school supplies and back-to-school clothes. Parents of kindergarteners...buy some Kleenex. You're probably going to need them.

4) The Weather

Grab your umbrella! Showers and thunderstorms are likely today with a high near 80. Tonight, there's a 50 percent of showers and thunderstroms with a low around 64.

5) Top Off the Tank

According to IowaStateGasPrices.com, the Casey's locations at E. University & Boone Drive, Highway 6 and Warrior Lane and Ute Avenue and I-80 all have gas for $3.51 a gallon.