Press Release - Newport Marathon - 5/8/07

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  West Coast Bank Is the Presenting Sponsor for the 9th Annual Newport  
                        Marathon on June 2, 2007 

NEWPORT, Ore., May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- West Coast Bank is the 
presenting sponsor for the ninth annual Newport Marathon on Saturday, June 
2, 2007. The company will also staff a runner's aid station during the 
sold-out race, which has drawn contestants from all 50 states as well as 
Canada, Central America, Europe and the Far East.

Coast Commercial Banking Team Leader Tim Johnson said, "The Newport 
Marathon generates considerable business for the local economy before 
summer break, so West Coast Bank has been pleased to promote and provide 
volunteers for the event for several years."

An entire chapter is devoted to the Newport Marathon and the Newport 
community in The Traveling Marathoner. Featured alongside such well-known 
races as Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, it's no wonder that the 
race has grown to be the third largest marathon in the Northwest and is 
billed as "a big-city race in a small-town environment."


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