A Windham business beat 9,000 other small businesses in Yahoo.com’s Ultimate Connection Contest last Sunday.
After 10 days of online voting, the Internet community chose Kids Crooked House of Windham as the victor from a narrowed-down field of five businesses, netting $25,000 worth of online advertising, a year of mentoring from Fortune 500 CEO’s and a power lunch on July 10 with Ivanka Trump, vice president of Real Estate Development and Acquisitions at the Trump Organization owned by her father Donald Trump.
“We’re very excited about it,” said Kids Crooked House co-founder and artistic director Glen Halliday. “All they’ll say is that the lunch will be ‘high above’ New York City. Who knows what that could be?”
“Everyone from our neighbors to the governor voted for us, told their friends to vote and offered encouragement along the way,” he said.
Halliday, 26, of Windham started Kids Crooked House a year ago with his cousin Jeff Leighton, 33, of Gray. They build outdoor wooden playhouses with their distinct disjointed angles and imaginative themes, like pirate ships and stone castles.
“From what other people in the business have told us, we’re going to grow very fast,” said Halliday. He said he expects the demand to allow him to hire more carpenters for his production yard located next to Windham Mill Works.
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