Cedar Rapids donated funds from an awarded ENF Beacon Grant to Community Free Health Clinic. Shown from left to right are PER Rose Mary Beadle, Jamie Henley, Chief Operating Officer of Community Free Health Clinic, and PER Ricky Arbogast.
Cedar Rapids Elks Lodge #251 donated funds from an ENF Beacon Grant to the Cedar Rapids Fire Department’s Smoke Detector Fund. Shown from left to right are PER Rosemary Beadle, Sydney Henderson, Cedar Rapids Fire Department’s Public Education Specialist, and PER Ricky Arbogast.
Our Mission
to inculcate the principles of Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity; to recognize a belief in God; to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members; to quicken the spirit of American patriotism; to cultivate good fellowship; to perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization, and to provide for its government, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America will serve the people and communities through benevolent programs, demonstrating that Elks Care and Elks Share.
Our Goal
Elks Lodges bring so much more to their communities than just a building, golf course or pool. They are places where neighbors come together, families share meals, and children grow up.
Elks invest in their communities through programs that help children, Veterans and community needs.
Chris Elsberry President of the Iowa Elks Association
Chris Elsberry is 46 years old and has been a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks since 2000, joining Boone lodge #563 then transferring to Des Moines Lodge #98 in 2004.
He has served as Lecturing Knight (2004), Loyal Knight (2005), Leading Knight (2006) and Exalted Ruler (2007). After being Exalted Ruler, Chris went onto the Lodge Trustees for 5 years. He served as the SW Vice President in 2012, Esquire to the District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler in 2013 and was SW District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler in 2014. He then went on to serve as the Youth Activities Chairman for 3 years before taking the lead as the Leading Knights Division Chair in 2018. He was then selected as the Iowa Elks Association State President-Elect in 2022.
The State motto for this Year is “Swing Into Elkdom.”
We need to continue to set the standard for other organizations to follow through our community involvement and charitable works. We need to promote the ELKS like never before. With your leadership and mindset, I know we can accomplish this.
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“We Are The Elks” 
“Swing Into Elkdom“
Our Mission
to inculcate the principles of Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity; to recognize a belief in God; to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members; to quicken the spirit of American patriotism; to cultivate good fellowship; to perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization, and to provide for its government, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America will serve the people and communities through benevolent programs, demonstrating that Elks Care and Elks Share.
Our Goal
Elks Lodges bring so much more to their communities than just a building, golf course or pool. They are places where neighbors come together, families share meals, and children grow up.
Elks invest in their communities through programs that help children, Veterans and community needs.
