WCBO West Coast Bancorp (MM)

West Coast Bank will Open a New Tualatin-Sherwood Branch in September Cheryl Dorman is Named Manager; Loretta Grant is Customer Service Manager LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- West Coast Bank (NASDAQ:WCBO) will open its fourth new branch this year at 8805 SW Tualatin- Sherwood Road in Tualatin. The bank, which is located in the Hedges Greene Retail Center near Haggen Foods, is being remodeled and is scheduled to open in September at the former Pacific Northwest Bank/Bank of the Northwest site. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010816/SFTH016ALOGO ) Twenty-year banker Cheryl Dorman has been named manager and vice president of the branch. She most recently served as customer service manager of the company's Lake Oswego branch and previously as credit center manager. Loretta Grant, the branch's customer service manager, has lived and worked in Tualatin for more than twenty years. She served as customer service manager at the Pacific Northwest Bank in Tualatin prior to its closure when Wells Fargo acquired the bank. Regional President Dave Hansen said, "I couldn't be more pleased with our new Tualatin location and our professional branch staff. Both managers have more than twenty years of community banking experience each along with market knowledge of the thriving Tualatin-Sherwood area." The company will also open three other branches this fall in Orchards (Vancouver), Salem and Gresham. West Coast Bank now has the largest number of branches and the greatest deposit market share of any community bank in the Portland/Vancouver and Salem market areas. West Coast Bancorp, one of Oregon Business Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For, is a Northwest bank holding company with $1.7 billion in assets, operating 48 offices in Oregon and Washington. The company combines the sophisticated products and expertise of larger banks with the local decision making, market knowledge and customer service of a community bank. For more information, 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: Dave Hansen, Regional President of West Coast Bancorp, +1-503-606-8040 Web site: http://www.wcb.com/

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