Crocs helps stave off meter maid

While heading toward the parking-lot pay kiosk on Broadway and Spruce, a pair of young ladies wearing green Crocs T-shirts (and shorts) carrying bags of quarters ran to the Eye and insisted on picking up the parking tab.

One of them reached into the clear-plastic sandwich bag and produced 12 quarters, more than enough to keep the meter maid at bay while the Eye attended the Business Report’s Mercury 100 event at the Hotel Boulderado.

Seems Crocs Inc. has been helping people out in the parking department as the maker of funky shoes gets settled in its new retail store at 1129 Pearl St.

The Eye gets bloodshot thinking about the inundation of moving trucks, jam-packed cars and furniture-crammed flatbeds tooling around at the beginning and end of summer months.

But add to the moving madness a couch-pulling cruiser bike, and it’s a whole different story.

Jeff Pedelty — yup, that appears to be his real last name — and a two-wheeled 20-person crew on June 6 pedaled his possessions from his old home to his new one at the Peloton in Boulder. In all, it was 3.3 miles.

Let the celebration begin in the Vail Valley, as Vail and Beaver Creek resorts were selected by the International Ski Federation Council to host the 2015 World Alpine Ski Championships.

This will be the third FIS World Championships for the resorts, which previously hosted the 1989 and 1999 championships.

Vail and Beaver Creek resorts have been supporting and hosting international ski racing events and World Cups since the circuit began in 1967.

Beaver Creek plans to upgrade the Birds of Prey venue, increasing the finish area for the men’s events, building a new Red Tail Camp Restaurant and building a new women’s speed course.

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