Columbia Bancorp to Present at Sandler O'Neill West Coast Financial Services Conference

Columbia Bancorp (columbiabancorp.com/) is the financial holding company for Columbia River Bank.

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(THE DALLES, Ore.) - Columbia Bancorp (NASDAQ:CBBO) today announced plans to participate in Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P. West Coast Financial Services Conference to be held in San Francisco, California, on March 11th 2007.

Roger Christensen, President and CEO will participate in the Pacific Northwest Bank panel scheduled to present on Tuesday, March 11th at 7:45 AM Pacific Time (10:45 AM Eastern). The presentation can be heard by going to columbiabancorp.com/, and clicking on the Investor Relations section under Presentations or by going to sandleroneill.com/.

ABOUT COLUMBIA BANCORP

Columbia Bancorp (columbiabancorp.com/) is the financial holding company for Columbia River Bank, which operates 22 branches located in The Dalles (2), Hood River, Bend (3), Madras, Redmond (2), Pendleton, Hermiston, McMinnville, Lake Oswego, Canby, and Newberg, Oregon, and in Goldendale, White Salmon, Sunnyside, Yakima, Pasco, Vancouver and Richland, Washington. To supplement its community banking services, Columbia River Bank also provides mortgage-lending services through Columbia River Bank Mortgage Team and brokerage services through CRB Financial Services Team.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains various forward-looking statements about plans and anticipated results of operations and financial condition relating to Columbia Bancorp.

These statements include statements about Management's present plans and intentions about our strategy, growth, and deployment of resources, and about Management's expectations for future financial performance.

Readers can sometimes identify forward-looking statements by the use of prospective language and context, including words like "may", "will", "should", "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "continue", "plans", "intends", or other similar terminology.

Because forward-looking statements are, in part, an attempt to project future events and explain Management's current plans, they are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause our actions and our financial and operational results to differ materially from those set forth in such statements.

These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, our ability to estimate accurately the potential for losses inherent in our loan portfolio, economic and other factors that affect the collectability of our loans, the impact of competition and fluctuations in market interest rates on Columbia's revenues and margins, and our ability to open and generate growth from new branches and to expand in new markets as we expect.

Some of the other, risks and uncertainties that we have in the past, or that we may from time to time in the future, detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Information presented in this report is accurate as of the date the report was filed with the SEC, and we cannot undertake to update our forward-looking statements or the factors that may cause us to deviate from them, except as required by law.

Source: News release from: Columbia Bancorp