Elevations holds limerick contest for customers

In honor of National Limerick Day, Elevations Credit Union in Boulder decided to hold a limerick contest among its customers and send the winner to Limerick, Ireland, home of writer Edward Lear, the father of the limerick.

You know, these are the short poems that sometimes start with, There once was a girl from Nantucket … .

The Eye was interested in seeing some of these entries, and Dennis Paul, assistant vice president of business and community development at Elevations provided a few, saying, “These are the ones fit to print.”

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Shucks, but here’s a couple anyway.

This from Erin Koenig:

There once was a girl from Boulder,

Now she’s a proud credit union cardholder!

And Mary Hill penned:

Credit Unions, of acourse, are my thing.

Paul said the credit union received more than 600 entries. Stay tuned to see who goes to Ireland.

We have a new “eco diva” in the room after the recent Boulder Economic Summit – one Liz Hanson, the city of Boulder’s economic vitality coordinator.

We also have our very own 2011 “Whip It” Devo dancer – one Brad Feld, managing director of the Foundry Group venture capital firm, a cofounder of the TechStars startup accelerator and a serial entrepreneur.

Remember that New Wave ’80s band Devo?

Feld insists that he had never heard the catch phrase “eco devo,” short for economic development, when the state’s new economic development guru Dwayne Romero mentioned it in a breakfast speech at the summit. Feld followed Romero at the well-attended event.

So when Hanson asked Feld a specific question about how “eco devo” groups could help local companies, he quickly went into dance mode – shimmying forward with one hand up, fingers pointed forward, a la The Bangles “Walk Like an Egyptian.”

It’s probably the first, last and only time she’ll ever get to see Brad Feld dancing on stage because of something she said, “But I Like It,” Hanson said, later. (Apologies to the Rolling Stones.)

On a more serious note, Hanson told the Eye she loves the national attention a businessperson like Feld brings to Boulder. On a national stage, Feld “spreads the word more than probably anyone else can do” about how great it is to do business in Boulder and to grow companies in Boulder, she said.