LEAD, S.D. (AP) - A woman died in a skiing accident at the Terry
Peak resort in western South Dakota's Black Hills.
Authorities said 24-year-old Tina Heilman hit a ski lift tower
Saturday as she was skiing down a beginner's slope at the resort.
Terry Peak President Tom Marsing says the woman was a novice
skier and she wasn't wearing a helmet.
A family friend says Heilman worked as a nurse in Sioux Falls.
She was from Orange City, Iowa, and a graduate of Dordt College, a
Christian college in Sioux Center, Iowa.
The college's president says Heilman worked in the college's
service missionary program in the Dominican Republic three years
ago.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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