IN SPORTS: P-15’s will try again tonight to finish off Murrells Inlet in Legion series B1 NATION Trump selects Indiana Gov. Pence as running mate A6 SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2016 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents Man killed Boat driver gets 5 years in Sumter on Friday BY JIM HILLEY [email protected] Sumter Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred Friday afternoon that resulted in the death of a Sumter man. Officers were called after 4 p.m. Friday to the Dibert Street area, where Ante La- vern Wither- spoon, 28, of 1005 Dibert St. was found shot to death, according WITHER- to the depart- SPOON ment's Public In- formation Officer Tonyia McGirt. Detectives are working to determine who was involved in the shooting and why it took place, McGirt said. Anyone with information is asked to call the department at (803) 436-2700. Information can also be given anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers at (803) 436- 2718 or 1-888-CRIME-SC. A re- ward may be available for in- formation leading to an arrest. PHOTOS BY KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM Turkish Chad Morris, above, wipes a tear away as his attorney, Shaun Kent, asks for leniency during sentencing in court on Friday in Manning. Shawn and Pam Bordeaux, Hailey’s parents, and Ginny military Helms, her aunt, right, comfort each other as the verdict against Morris is read. Judge says Sumter man should have takes over helped woman after 2014 wreck; country attorney questions wisdom of law ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — BY KONSTANTIN four passengers, including Members of Turkey's armed VENGEROWSKY Bordeaux, on Lake Marion forces said they had taken con- [email protected] during the early morning trol of the country Friday as hours of July 4, 2014. explosions, gunfire and a re- A Clarendon County jury "You have a duty when you ported air battle between loyal- found a Sumter man guilty are the operator of a boat to boat with him the night of Shortly after arriving at ist forces and coup supporters on Friday for failure to ren- come to the aid of the vic- the crash, there was a verbal the friend's house, they re- erupted in the capital. Turkey's der aid for his part in a July tim," Ninth Judicial Circuit confrontation between indi- ceived a call from another president remained defiant and 2014 boating incident that Court Judge Roger Young Sr. viduals in the two boats im- friend who said South Caro- called on people to take to the claimed the life of Hailey said. “What hurt you is your mediately after the crash. lina Department of Natural streets to show support for his Joanne Bordeaux, 21, of conduct after the accident; Morris, Card and Card's Resources officers were embattled government. Sumter. the way you and the people now estranged wife, Jessica looking for them. Turks appeared to heed Chad Morris, 40, of 2661 in your boat acted did not do Long, occupants of the boat, DNR arrested Morris at that call early Saturday Tindal Road, received a five- you justice. You needed to left the scene, saying they his friend's house about an marching through the streets year sentence for failure to make sure people who were did not want the verbal con- hour after the incident, of Izmir and Istanbul waving render aid and a 30-day sen- injured were assisted." frontation to escalate and Third Judicial Circuit Court Turkish flags, according to tence and $500 fine for negli- According to testimony that their boat had begun to Assistant Solicitor Chris TV footage. Crowds also gath- gent operation of a watercraft presented Thursday by Mor- fill with water. DuRant said in his closing ered in the main square in after the boat he was operat- ris' friend, Franklin Card, 29, They went to a friend's ing struck an idling boat with of Sumter, who was in the house. SEE TRIAL, PAGE A6 SEE COUP, PAGE A6 Sumter Fire Department outfitted with oxygen masks for pets BY ADRIENNE SARVIS ence a few individuals can make. to Richland Fire Department after Sumter Fire [email protected] Mary Ellen Tobias, project coor- one week of asking for donations. Department dinator, said all of the money to Tobias said the next goal was to received enough On Thursday morning, Pet Oxy- purchase the kits that were provid- outfit the entire state with pet oxy- WAGN Pet gen Kit Project Inc. provided 24 oxy- ed on Thursday was donated by gen masks. Oxygen Masks to gen masks specifically designed for Midlands Gives, a public charity Since its start, the project has put one on each pets to Sumter Fire Department. with the goal of improving the provided about 330 pet oxygen truck. Phil Leventis, former South Caro- quality of life in South Carolina's masks to fire departments in Rich- KEITH GEDAMKE / lina senator and director of devel- communities. land, Lexington, Kershaw, Berkeley, THE SUMTER ITEM opment for South Carolina Fire- She said the pet oxygen mask Dorchester, Charleston and now fighters' Foundation, said the oxy- nonprofit started two years ago Sumter counties. gen masks will help empower Sum- after she watched firefighters re- Tobias said the nonprofit receives ter's firefighters. suscitate a kitten on the news. financial donations from veterinary They already do so many things to After partnering with her friend offices and other interested parties save lives, and the masks will give Nena Sinclair, another project coor- in the areas to receive the oxygen them an extra capability, he said. dinator for the nonprofit, the masks. 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Californian Linda Watanabe Mc- Which came first, the name of the They found inspiration, and most of Ferrin, an accomplished author who artists colony that collaborated to them continue to come back each guides the colony’s writing work- produce two anthologies, or the name spring, even though the colony shops, writes of Southerners’ rela- of the first anthology? Perhaps it moved its base to Sullivan’s Island tionship with the dead: “I love a place doesn’t really matter, as both readers for a few springs and, this year, to where ancestors and other deceased and contributors “sample” the South Folly Beach. loved ones are not only revered, but in “A Southern Sampler” and now in Cantarutti has long lived in Cali- also asked to weigh in on significant the second book. fornia but can’t stay away from South matters — a world where they actual- The contributing writ- Carolina for long, traveling back sev- ly answer.” ers, visual artists and eral times a year to see friends and In the recipes, the smells, the chefs of the Southern family and to make plans with Gre- sights, the language evoked in Sampler Artists Colony enway, who lives in her ancestral “Charleston and the South,” those and their readers share home outside of Sumter, for the colo- answers often seem to come, even as varied samples of Low- ny’s next residency. they might suggest other questions CANTARUTTI country culture in the From the very beginning, Canta- — another reason for the colony’s re- group’s second antholo- rutti and Greenway aimed to intro- turn each spring, hopefully resulting gy, “Charleston and the South,” sub- duce participants to South Carolina in another volume of tasty slices of titled “A Sampler of Stories • Poetry • culture. Greenway said at that time, Southern manners, mores, traditions Recipes • Art.” As with its first, “A “the idea of the residency is to share and legacy. Southern Sampler,” the “samples” in the wonderful things about the South Cantarutti is optimistic about a this book can make you nostalgic for with artists from other areas.” third book, but she’s “just not sure the South, even if you’re from else- In the process, even the state na- PHOTO PROVIDED about the title and theme until 2017 where, as are many of the contribu- tives found deeper meaning in the The Southern Sampler Artists Colony’s SSAC workshop plans are finalized,” tors. The colony, after all, calls itself South and in both books share those second anthology is on sale at Elephant she said. She and Greenway are a “bi-coastal artistic community.” insights with the reader. As does the Ear Gallery, where colony members will be working on those now. Several, like co-founder Mary Brent first book, “Charleston and the present to sign copies from 3 to 5 p.m. Several contributors, including Cantarutti, live in California. South” illustrates the easy way of Thursday. Greenway, will be signing copies of Sumter natives Cantarutti and Southerners, the nostalgia for the “Charleston and the South” at Ele- Martha Greenway, friends since high best of the Old South enhanced by its with prose, poetry and visual art phant Ear Art Gallery, 672 Bultman school, started the colony in 2007, positive changes.