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Scotts Executive Dies In Rock Climbing Accident

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published October 25, 2017 at 5:17 AM EDT
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Funeral arrangements are pending for an executive of the Marysville-based Scotts company who died Saturday while rock climbing in the Hocking State Forest. 49-year-old Timothy Watabe had taken a group of Boy Scouts to Edison Hollow to do some rappelling. Watabe was also a Boy Scouts troop leader and a Bishop at a Mormon church in Dublin.
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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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