b'2024 State ReportOREGON Fuels Association ReportI hope you all enjoyed your summerandEmily Hess and took time to relax and enjoy family and friends. Steve Taylor from Here in the Pacific Northwest, we are now headedMaul, Foster and for our dreaded rainy season, which for us is theAlongi, followed next nine months! Josh on ourI am excited to introduce myself as the new Execu- schedule withtive Director of the Oregon Fuels Association. I ama Renewablethankful to be part of the leadership for OFA, andFuels Overview.work towards further strengthening and supportingFinishing up the the industry in our state. I was able to meet manyspeaker part of our Krista Fentonof you at the event in Sunriver, but for those of youconference was OFA Executive Director whom I missed, I look forward to doing so. Cheryl Csiky. She The OFA had itsshared her very personal saga of being sex trafficked, annual conferenceand talked with us about how to safeguard our busi-in Sunriver this July.nesses from being a site for this heinous and prolific Beautiful weather, delicious food and great companyit doesnt get much better than that. As many of you know, we had a record number of attendees this year. A huge thank you to my predecessor Tracey Anderson for her thoughtful planning, making this a specialepidemic in our country. At the end of her session, event for OFAs members. My aim is to Jeff Rouse presented Cheryls non-profit, In Our continue the tradition with even greater Backyard, with a $1500 donation on behalf of OFA attendance and participation. We had a wonderful round of informative speakers this year. Todd Shaw from WPMA, Gabriel Zirkle, OFA EMA Director, and Mike Freese from Romain/Freese, started our day out with some updates on local business. We had a Q&A with Neste & Phillips, mod-erated by Jeff Rouse, and a Renewable Diesel Update. Our Keynote speaker was the impres-sive LTC Josh Bundt,/ Convenience Stores PhD, USMA, WestAgainst Trafficking. Point. Josh had us We want to say thank captivated with hisyou to Cheryl for her wealth of experienceopenness and trans-and information on parency in sharing her the world of cyberstory with us.security and how toWe had plenty of protect ourselves anddown time as well to our businesses.enjoy the resort and 42 www.wpma.com / Fall 2024'