With interactive fun for all ages, visitors will discover how bugs affect our lives and benefit us now and throughout history. Build a bug, look through bug eyes, and meet the state bug -- the Oregon swallowtail butterfly. Examine live specimens -- even the huge African scorpion. This exhibit is sure to have visitors exclaiming, "Yuck!" "Cool!" and, "Fascinating!"

Xandra McKeown, West Coast Bank Executive Vice President -- Commercial Banking, and a member of the High Desert Museum Board of Trustees said, "The High Desert Museum is a wonderful resource which showcases and celebrates the history and contemporary issues of all inhabitants of the High Desert landscape. Through exhibits, wildlife, and living history, the museum educates, informs and delights thousands of local residents and visitors who walk through the doors every year. It is West Coast Bank's pleasure to support and be personally involved in such an exceptional treasure in Oregon."

Janeanne Upp, President of High Desert Museum, said, "We are most grateful to West Coast Bank. Its support allows organizations such as the High Desert Museum to present these interactive and educational exhibitions."

For more information about the BUGS! exhibit or the High Desert Museum, see http://www.highdesertmuseum.org/.

West Coast Bancorp, , one of Oregon Business Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For, is a Northwest bank holding company with $2.6 billion in assets, operating 64 locations 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's web site at http://www.wcb.com/.

    Contact:    Xandra McKeown    Executive Vice President    503.598.3251  

West Coast Bank

CONTACT: Xandra McKeown, Executive Vice President of West Coast Bank,+1-503-598-3251

Web site: http://www.wcb.com/

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