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Serving The Needs Of Washington Bankers Since 1889 WBA’s Board <strong>of</strong> Directors Chairman: Eric Pearson, President & CEO, Community 1st Bank, Kennewick Chairman-Elect & WBA Education Committee Chair: Laurie Stewart, President & CEO, Sound Community Bank, Seattle Secretary/Treasurer: Kerry Biddle, Senior Vice President, Bank <strong>of</strong> America, Tacoma Immediate Past Chair: Dave Straus, President & CEO, Fortune Bank, Seattle ABA Govt. Relations Committee Rep: Jim Mitchell, President & CEO, Puget Sound Bank, Bellevue WBA PROS Chairman: Kurt E. Graff, President & CEO, Northwest Commercial Bank, Lakewood Directors Jim Carmichael (term to 2014) President & CEO, Kitsap Bank, Port Orchard Melanie Dressel (term to 2013) President & CEO, Columbia Bank, Tacoma Brian Hawley (term to 2014) SVP & Regional President, Union Bank, Seattle John E. (Jack) Heath (term to 2012) President & COO, Washington Trust Bank, Spokane Dennis Long (term to 2013) CEO, The Bank <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pacific, Aberdeen Jim Mitchell (term to 2013) President & CEO, Cascade Bank, Everett Carol K. Nelson (term to 2014) President & CEO, Cascade Bank, Everett Byron L. Richards (term to 2014) Senior Vice President, U.S. Bank, Seattle Greg Seibly (term to 2014) President & CEO, Sterling Financial Corporation Patrick Yalung (term to 2013) Regional President, Wells Fargo Bank, Seattle WBA’s Magazine Issues & Answers WINS TOP AWARD The Washington Bankers Association recently won <strong>the</strong> APEX Excellence in Publishing Award for <strong>the</strong>ir magazine, Issues & Answers. The APEX awards program is an international competition that recognizes excellence in <strong>publication</strong>s work and communications by Fortune 500 companies, trade <strong>association</strong>s, nonpr<strong>of</strong>its, academia, and <strong>the</strong> corporate world. Each year roughly 3,500 entries are submitted and reviewed by a panel <strong>of</strong> well-known industry judges and 100 awards are presented to honor outstanding work in eleven major categories. Additionally, <strong>the</strong>re are a number <strong>of</strong> “honorable mentions” awarded recognizing exceptional entries. The APEX Awards program has been in existence for 23 years and is one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> main publishing competitions in <strong>the</strong> world that places emphasis on <strong>the</strong> quality <strong>of</strong> editorial content and <strong>the</strong> <strong>publication</strong> as a whole. Sharing in this award is <strong>the</strong> publisher, <strong>Media</strong> Communications Group, Inc. and newsLINK 7 Marketing & Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Publishing Services, who provides sales, marketing and editorial services to <strong>Media</strong> Communications Group, Inc. Congratulations to WBA on a <strong>publication</strong> that is stellar in editorial content and a magazine that embodies <strong>the</strong> industry’s highest standards and reinforces WBA’s sterling pr<strong>of</strong>essional image. Future copies <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Issues & Issues magazine can now have <strong>the</strong> APEX Award logo for <strong>the</strong> year 2011. July/August 2011 ⏐