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Columbia Banking System Announces Date of First Quarter 2007 Earnings Release and Conference Call

    TACOMA, Wash., April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Columbia Banking
System today (Nasdaq: COLB) announced that it plans to release its first
quarter earnings results on Wednesday, April 25, 2007, just prior to its
Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The Company will discuss the quarterly
results on a conference call at l:30 PDT on Thursday, April 26, 2007.
Forward-looking and other material information may be discussed on this
conference call.
    Interested investors, analysts, media representatives and the public
are invited to listen to this discussion by calling 1-866-404-2271;
Conference ID code 6348598. A conference call replay will be available from
approximately 3:00 p.m. PST on April 26 through midnight PDT on Thursday,
May 3, 2007. The conference call replay can be accessed by dialing
1-800-642-1687 and entering Conference ID code 6348598.
    Columbia Banking System's Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held
at 1:00 PDT on April 25, 2007, at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade
Center; 1500 Broadway, Tacoma, Washington.
    Columbia Banking System, Inc. is a Tacoma-based bank holding company
whose wholly owned bank subsidiaries are Columbia Bank and Bank of Astoria.
Columbia Bank is a Washington state-chartered full-service commercial bank
with 35 banking offices in Pierce, King, Cowlitz, Kitsap and Thurston
counties. Bank of Astoria, a federally insured commercial bank
headquartered in Astoria, Oregon, operates four branches in Clatsop County:
Astoria, Warrenton, Seaside and Cannon Beach; and one branch in Manzanita
in Tillamook County. More information about Columbia can be found on its
website at http://www.columbiabank.com.
    Contact:
    Jo Anne Coy, Vice President,
    Corporate Communications
    (253) 305-1965


SOURCE Columbia Banking System, Inc.




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    CONTACT:
    Jo Anne Coy, Vice President, Corporate
    Communications of Columbia Banking System, Inc., +1-253-305-1965