From Deseret News archives:
Cactus or comment? Vent cover now gone
"We're just glad that it's down and over with," said Sharon Easton, who lives up the hill from Darren Wood's house and had a full view of the covering.
The Eastons and Stan Torgersen's family had been in a yearlong dispute with Wood and considered the image a direct message to them.
Wood sent a statement to The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday that said his "decision to place the controversial cactus would have made sense to only those involved.
"We as a family are looking forward to seeing this chapter of a third-grade spat come to a close," Wood said, adding that total costs of the construction interruption due to his neighbors' complaints reached $25,000.
The Eastons' and Torgersens' conflict with Wood began as a dispute over site excavation work.
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