Retired psychologist to discuss his book on prostate cancer

Steven Heaps, a retired psychologist from Spokane Valley and former professor at Gonzaga, will appear at Whitman County Library next Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m., to discuss his book, “The Rancid Walnut: An Ultrarunning Psychologist’s Journey with Prostate Cancer.”

An ultra-marathon runner and poetry writer, Steven Heaps lives in Spokane Valley.

Heaps has a local link to Colfax: he and Colfax coach and teacher Jack McBride are long-time friends and members of the Shadle Park High School class of 1962.

One year after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, Heaps underwent a prostatectomy and soo...