With regret, we must announce that we will cease production and posting of our PCSO newsletter The Walnut. It has not been possible to engage a full-time volunteer editor for this key element of communicating with our membership and visitors to our website. Many thanks to our devoted Walnut readers over the years.
We also extend our sincere gratitude to PCSO Board member Chuck Graham for producing the year-end editions of The Walnut for 2022 and 2023. It’s a complex, time-consuming task which Chuck assumed on top of his own busy schedule, to produce excellent collections of articles and stories of PCSO activities.
Walnut issues typically contain.
- Recaps of PCSO meetings and events
- Announcements about upcoming meetings and events
- Health and nutrition news
- Survivor stories
- Updates on new, innovative prostate and recurrent cancer treatment
- Research and diagnostics
- Photos, funny moments…and anything else we can come up with!
The Walnut Archive
The Walnut - February, 2014 
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we lovingly bring you this issue featuring Rocco Rossi’s five-hole.
Nothing says “I love you” more than a cancerous (or excised) prostate with a copy of The Walnut tucked in among the roses.
Thoughtful, no?
The Walnut - January, 2014
Definitions:
Potpourri. A miscellaneous collection of things.
Walnut Potpourri. A miscellaneous collection of recent happenings for which there is no definitive theme or common denominator but which may provide amusement, entertainment, enlightenment, knowledge, or awareness, all dependent on the reader’s perspective and the editor’s mood at any given moment.
January 2014 Walnut Potpourri. Some of the above.
Happy New Year!
The Walnut - December, 2013
“Yule” really love this month’s meeting. Aside from the usual holiday season’s boundless frivolity and imbibing, we’ve invited comic Ruvin Geller to raise some yuks at the December meeting.
Plus, member Hal Floysvik and his Trillium Dixieland Band will perform, we suspect, seasonal Dixieland music.
Please stop reading this issue and come out to the festivities instead. As for The Walnut, yes, we have stuff in it.
The Walnut - November, 2013
This is Stache month. It used to be MOvember. No matter. The idea is the same.
Grow something on your upper lip and tell people you’re looking better all because of prostate cancer. They won’t believe you. The looking better part, we mean.
For those already sporting facial fuzz, we thank you for your permanent support of the cause. No matter what it makes you look like.
The Walnut - October, 2013
No hanging chads interfered with the September elections. The results are on page 3. We’ve kept the vote count confidential though.
As for the rest of the issue, we go from lymphedema to more on PSA testing and conclude with some fine lessons on stress management. As always, something for everyone.
We thank you for your continued support!
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