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West Coast Bank Donates Computers to Forest Grove Senior Center Branch Manager Wanda Frazier Will Help Create, Test and Critique Computer Classes FOREST GROVE, Ore., March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- West Coast Bank has donated computers, monitorsand keyboards to the remodeled Forest Grove Senior Center at 2037 Douglas Street. The new computer lab will be dedicated with a ribbon cutting ceremony on April 30, 1:30 p.m. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010816/SFTH016ALOGO ) The bank is a certified elder friendly business and Branch Manager Wanda Frazier, an advocate for seniors, will help develop classes to introduce Senior Center members to email, Internet, Word and Excel. Forest Grove Senior Center Executive Director Lucy Warren said, "The information age is here, and we don't want any senior left behind. Thanks to West Coast Bank's generous donation, the Senior Center can provide a non-threatening, comfortable place to learn to use a computer. We're able to open our computer lab fully equipped, and offer classes and computer time to our members now, rather than next year." West Coast Bancorp is a Northwest bank holding company with $1.7 billion in assets, operating 47 offices in Oregon and Washington. The Company serves clients who seek the resources, sophisticated products and expertise of larger financial institutions, along with the local decision-making, market knowledge, and customer service orientation of a community bank. West Coast Bancorp, the parent company of West Coast Bank and West Coast Trust, is a publicly held bank holding company headquartered in Oregon. The Company offers a broad range of banking, investment, fiduciary and trust services. For more information, please visit the Company web site at http://www.wcb.com/. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010816/SFTH016ALOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: West Coast Bancorp CONTACT: Wanda Frazier, Vice President & Branch Manager of West Coast Bank, +1-503-359-4495 Web site: http://www.wcb.com/

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