Saturday Builders Newport Washington Leach Off Community Event

The community of Newport Washington had a large event hosted by Treasures on Foxwood Aug 8th and 9th 2009. An event for antiques, collectibles, vintage, art, crafts and much more.

A huge amount of time, money and effort was involved in getting 70 vendors from all over the Pacific Northwest to gather for this successful community event.

Local businesses who choose to participate in the community event paid for a spot like any other vendor.

The exception was a small five and dime hardware store located off the same mile marker at South Shore road.

Those of us who live in the community were already more than familiar with the fictitious "yard sale" signs posted along highway 2 intended to mislead weekend travelers to a yard sale. Only to find themselves at a run down five and dime hardware store.

This same Saturday Builders Hardware store decided to not participate within the community event like everyone else. Instead they opted to create over sized fictitious and misleading "antique/collectibles for sale" signs. Posting them right next to this community event on highway #2.

Saturday Builder owners intentionally created a misleading conception that their hardware store a mile off the highway was the actual Newport community event. Leading people off the highway to their store, they would then scream out and wave their arms at the confused visitor inviting them in like some kind of carnival worker trying to attract people to a game booth at the carnival.

The bewildered visitor would ask where the Newport Community event was. The owners of Saturday builders would tell them, "oh there is nothing going on down there, we have all the old stuff right here"! Or get this... They would tell people, "If you stay here for five minutes and shop, we will tell you how to get there"!

Saturday Builder Hardware store of Newport Washington leached off the advertising, marketing and promotional investments of this Treasures on Foxwood hosted community event.

Coming down at days end on Saturday the 8th bragging about how they had over 80 sales as a result of their misleading, leaching, self centered, and low handed techniques. Going on to say how disappointed they were that the event was scheduled for Sunday too. As that meant they would have to make it a work day at their business. Would not want to miss even one day of leaching and profiting off this event........ Just a shame it was on a regular day off.. Means they had to get out of bed and walk down to the cash register. Another day of screaming and waving bewildered drivers onto the property. Having to coax and con them to stay....

It is the hopes of this blog entry to convince the Newport community to boycott Saturday Builders. Express your discuss with their attitude of greedy, selfish and self centered business ethics.

The one really nice event that this community has seen in years and this disgusting hardware store and owners made every attempt to take full advantage of the event, event hosts, community, and all 70 vendors from around the Pacific Northwest who participated.

This blog entry is just the very beginning of building community awareness of the low handed community business..

Hopefully next year Saturday Builders will consider being a part of the community and join in as a vendor, rather than profit from and leach off the hard work of those who host community events.

I've been to Saturday Builders once. No reason to ever go back there that I can see.

Nancy Boutinen, Al Boutinen's wife came down to my house yelling and screaming about this blog post, various online articles and community forum posts that I posted through out the internet about their selfish behavior during the event.
We have lived in this community for over 10 years and have never even had a bad word with anyone.
This was the very first.
Because of that fact. Finding our truck vandalized today was the icing on the cake. The paint all the way around the truck was destroyed.
It is our opinion and we do suspect that these people came onto our property and did this vandalism.
Knowing more about these two people now than we did previously it does not surprise me.
Acting like an adolescent and sneaking on to our property to vandalize our truck left us no choice but to file a report with the police.
Back in the day, I would simply be sitting in jail right now. Al would be in the hospital looking at several months worth of physical rehabilitation.
That's the old me... Today I opted to file a report with the police against these criminals.
We are left with no choice but to request the court to grant us a restraining order in hopes that it will sway them from further vandalism.
Just a heads up so anyone who stumbles upon this blog post will be further aware of what kind of people these are.
They reside and sell five and dime junk from the old Saturday Builders hardware building.
I urge the community to consider boycotting any business with ( in my opinion ) these criminals who reside in our community.

Good reason not to use your name on this forum. Good luck getting justice. It is sad that things have come to this in our society. Back in the day, things were different!!

george Ingraham wrote:

Nancy Boutinen, Al Boutinen's wife came down to my house yelling and screaming about this blog post, various online articles and community forum posts that I posted through out the internet about their selfish behavior during the event.
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Interesting information. Thanks for posting.

I stumbled on to your blog by accident. Al and Nancy spend the winter in our RV Resort. They have a spotted reputation. I am interested in finding out if any action was taken by the local law enforcement. Also any other details you care to pass on. Even if you had not mentioned there names I would have reconized them.

Dale wrote:

I stumbled on to your blog by accident. Al and Nancy spend the winter in our RV Resort. They have a spotted reputation. I am interested in finding out if any action was taken by the local law enforcement. Also any other details you care to pass on. Even if you had not mentioned there names I would have reconized them.

Google Washington Courts. Al's name is there. Most recent case was in 2002. Looks like money stuff mostly and he is either the defendent or plaintiff. Info is not too complete you must go to the court involved to get more. GOOD LUCK!

Dale wrote:

I stumbled on to your blog by accident. Al and Nancy spend the winter in our RV Resort. They have a spotted reputation. I am interested in finding out if any action was taken by the local law enforcement. Also any other details you care to pass on. Even if you had not mentioned there names I would have reconized them.

Nothing more came of the vandalism. All I could do was report it. The police said that since nobody actually saw them that nothing much could be done. The local judge would not give us a restraining order..

Yes, there is quite a bit here locally about these two.

There were also accusations about a man in a wheel chair.. It is so horrific that I can not even post it here..

Pretty bad stuff..

I do know that they think they are quite the swingers.. They shared with us a few years ago about how they frequent swinger type RV parks during their Winter trips..

I better let it go at this !