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Columbia Banking System Announces Third Quarter 2008 Conference Call

    TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Columbia Banking
System management will discuss the company's third quarter 2008 results on
a conference call scheduled for Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 1:00 p.m.
PDT. Interested parties may listen to this discussion by calling
1-888-318-7969; Conference ID code #68150363. A conference call replay will
be available from approximately 4:00 p.m. PDT on October 23 through
midnight PDT on Thursday, October 30, 2008. The conference call replay can
be accessed by dialing 1-800-642-1687 and entering Conference ID code
68150363.

    About Columbia

    Headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, Columbia Banking System, Inc. is
the holding company of Columbia Bank, a Washington state-chartered
full-service commercial bank. With the 2007 acquisitions of Mountain Bank
Holding Company and Town Center Bancorp and the 2008 internal merger of its
subsidiary, Bank of Astoria, into Columbia Bank, Columbia Banking System
has 52 banking offices in Pierce, King, Cowlitz, Kitsap, Thurston and
Whatcom counties in Washington State, and Clackamas, Clatsop, Tillamook and
Multnomah counties in Oregon. Included in Columbia Bank are former branches
of Mt. Rainier National Bank, doing business as Mt. Rainier Bank, with 5
branches in King and Pierce counties. Columbia Bank does business under the
Bank of Astoria name at the Bank of Astoria's former branches located in
Astoria, Warrenton, Seaside and Cannon Beach in Clatsop County and in
Manzanita in Tillamook County. More information about Columbia can be found
on its website at http://www.columbiabank.com.

    Contacts: JoAnne Coy, Vice President,


Corporate Communications 253-305-1965
SOURCE Columbia Banking System




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    CONTACT:
    JoAnne Coy, Vice President, Corporate
    Communications of Columbia Banking System, +1-253-305-1965