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Local boy hurt after fall from Skiway lift
By A. J. Fox | February 15, 2006Last Wednesday while taking snowboarding lessons at the Dartmouth Skiway, a 12-year-old boy suffered two broken wrists, a fractured thigh bone and a collapsed lung after falling 30 feet from a chair lift. The boy, Harry Voelkel of Norwich, Vt., spent last week in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center recovering from surgery before being discharged on Tuesday. After the fall, Dartmouth ski patrollers rushed to carry the boy on an emergency sled to the foot of the trail where he was evacuated to DHMC by a hospital helicopter. Voelkel was riding the chair lift at about 4 p.m.