Exhibit 31.1

                             Certification Required
      By Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

I, Clyde E. Conklin, certify that:

1.       I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 10-KSB of FirstBank NW
         Corp.;

2.       Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue
         statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
         to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which
         such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period
         covered by this report;

3.       Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
         information included in this annual report, fairly present in all
         material respects the financial condition, results of operations and
         cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in
         this report;

4.       The small business issuer's other certifying officers and I are
         responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and
         procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15e and 15d-15e) for
         the small business issuer and have:

         (a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
         disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our
         supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the small
         business issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known
         to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period
         in which this report is being prepared;

         (b) Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer disclosure
         controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions
         about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures as of
         the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation;
         and

         (c) Disclosed in this report any change in the small business issuer's
         internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the
         small business issuer's most recent fiscal quarter (the small business
         issuer's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that
         has materially affect, or is reasonably likely to materially affect,
         the small business issuer's internal control over financial reporting;
         and

5.       The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed,
         based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial
         reporting, to the small business issuer's auditors and the audit
         committee of small business issuer's board of directors (or persons
         performing the equivalent function):

         (a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design
         or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
         reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuer's
         ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information;
         and

         (b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
         other employees who have a significant role in the small business
         issuer's internal control over financial reporting.

/s/ CLYDE E. CONKLIN
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Chief Executive Officer

Dated:  June 9, 2004