Thank you to the Iowa City Chamber of Commerce for honoring the Compeer Program as Non-Profit of the Year at the 2012 “Toast to our Communities” breakfast on Nov. 15.

It has been my privilege to serve as a Compeer Board member and as a Compeer volunteer friend. The Compeer Program matches community volunteers in friendship with individuals in treatment for a mental illness.

My Compeer friend, Mary, has enriched my life. Thank you, Mary. We chat on the phone, go out for coffee, shop together and enjoy each other’s company. Please consider joining me as a volunteer Compeer friend. We have a friend waiting for you.

“Precious are all things that come from friends.” Theocritus (250 BC)

Sherri Zastrow

Coralville