Rookie and veteran Superior Days delegates gathered Wednesday for their big day. Jessica Hamilton reports.

Youth or not, the delegates scoured the halls in teams of three to six members looking for their assigned legislators. Superior High School senior Elora Larson is a veteran youth delegate. This is her second trip to Superior Days. She had hoped to meet with all the representatives but says that’s not always the case.

“I know it’s hard to meet with them sometimes but if at least we could at least talk to the secretary and have the secretary take notes, I mean as long as we are telling someone about what we are trying to get across.”

Superior-Douglas County Development Association Director Michelle Hostetler says this is her 2nd time attending Superior Days. Hostetler says that even though she wasn’t able to meet with Representative John Jagler of Watertown, she was impressed by how attentive and the notes his assistant took.

“He was a very good public servant. The young man that was there, I really felt like he served the citizens of the state. Was open, listening, interested; I thought he was a very good representative of his representative.”

Douglas County Highway Committee Chairperson Kay Johnson of Brule says she thought she knew what her legislators were going to tell her but wanted to lobby the her specific issue of the Highway 2 expansion anyway.

“I’m sure they’re going to tell us that budget controls everything and that it would be very costly to do Hwy 2 but I do think they have to start. It needs to be the four lanes, there’s so much truck traffic and so forth, a lot of accidents because of the trucks.”

Superior Days delegates lobbied for two hours in the Capitol building, making stops at every legislator's office before noon.

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