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12 The Transcript, Wednesday, November 15, 1989" United Way reaches 82 of S500K goal; celebration set Fri. raised $9,514. an 18- percent in percent. The employees of the Adams Cooperative Banks led the Finance, Division with an increase of 31 per-' cent I In the Commercial Division, K-j Mart Department Store employees had a 101- percent increase. New; gifts, both corporate and employees were received from United Parcel: Service totaling more than $2,100.

A car wash to benefit the United Way campaign will be held by Hayden-O'Connell Oil Associates on the Curran Highway on Friday and, Saturday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. NORTH ADAMS The Northern Berkshire United Way campaign has passed the three- quarter point and Is In the home-stretch of the annual fund drive. As of Nov. 10, $411,793 82.4 percent of the "special half-million" goal was raised. The campaign supports human services in the area.

"We will be closer to the goal Friday, when we come together for the campaign celebration, volunteer appreciation, and an updated report," said Susan W. Mead, a developmental specialist at Northern Berkshire Mental Health Association, and Margaret L. Keller, Adams town planner, campaign co-chairwomen. The event will be held Friday, 6 p.m., at the Mohawk Performance Center on Main Street. The event will inclulde reports from chairmen of the eight divisions, recognition of volunteers and contributors, and a drawing for donated prizes.

Music will be provided by the band, Odyssey Cost for the light buffet Is $8. The public is invited. To obtain reservations, call the United Way, 663-9062. Mead and Keller noted the campaign books will remain open through mid-December for late returns. They urge those who haven't participated to do so soon.

Those who are conducting campaigns in business, Industry, public service, and other areas are asked to complete the campaigns prior to the deadline. More than $134,000 In contributions has been raised in the last two weeks. Special recognition Is noted for Increased corporate, employee group, and new support. The Industrial Division showed the biggest gain with $45,000 from the General Electric employees' Good Neighbor Fund, and $17,000 from Waverly Fabrics which Included a 12- percent corporate Increase. Other industry increases Included: Corporate Adams Specialty and Printing, 233 percent, and Jarlsh Paper Box Company, 12 percent.

New Gift Splroll International Employees Pierce Machine Company, 42 percent. In the Public Service Division, North Adams Regional Hospital has crease. Child Care of the Berkshires has raised $5,547, a 30- percent in-. crease. The Visiting Nurse Association giving was up 25 percent The Silvio Conte Middle School faculty and staff came forth with a 73- percent Increase.

Students In North Adams schools raised $978, with Middle School contributing $565 to help the Education Division. The Government Division highlighted the Adams Post Office with a 13- percent Increase, and the Department of Public Welfare at 6 fax aide program seeks volunteer counselors Berkshire Museum sets Myers video installation Counselors enjoy the program so much that most come back year after year; however, the program currently needs additional volunteers. Organizers are also looking for counselor coordinator to serve in North Berkshire County. i Persons Interested in finding out more about Tax Aide or in serving as i counselors should contact Frank H. Fiedler, 63 Cambridge Pitt-' 01201, or call 443-1731.

NORTH ADAMS Volunteers are being sought to serve as tax counselors In the nationwide Tax Aide program to assist elder citizens in preparing their tax returns. A service of the American Association of Retired Persons, in co-operation with the Internal Revenue Service and the State Department of Revenue, the Tax Aide program will be conducted in Senior Centers througout Western Massachusetts. Volunteers interested in serving, who are familiar with the basics of preparing tax forms, will be trained to prepare simple returns. Anyone who has prepared his or her own taxes should be able to qualify to serve. IRS does not con-, sider volunteers as "professionals" and does not require them to sign returns and does not hold them liable for errors on returns.

However, the program has an enviable record for accuracy on returns, according to IRS. Training will be conducted in January. Field works will begin on Feb. 1 and extend to April 15. Trained volunteers are asked to give one morning a week during the season at a site to be determined by need.

I COLONIAL I I f- I. II I. III. I eluded in The Carnegie Museum of Art's Touring exhibition, "American Landscape Video: The Electronic Grove," as well as the Kolnischer Kunstverein's "Video-Skulptur Retrospektiv und Aktuell 1963-1989." Myers has received numerous awards and distinctions, including three National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist's Fellowships, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented by the Alternative Museum (New York), Real Art Ways (Hartford), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York).

Myers was born in Hammonton, N.J., in 1947. In 1969 she graduated with honors from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and received an MA. from Hunter College, City University of New York, in 1974, where Myers studied with Robert Morris and Linda Nochlin. In 1983 she was made a member of the Douglass Society for Distinguished Achievement. Myers has taught at numerous institutions, including Columbia College, Chicago, The School of Visual Arts, New York, and the Hartford Art School.

She has also been an artist in residence at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers For more information please con-, tact The Berkshire Museum at MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY HAPPY DIAL ADS 663-1456 OFFICIAL OPENING North Adams Mayor John Barrett III cuts the ribbon for the grand opening of Dargle's Colonial Restaurant on Ashland Street Looking on are Henry Joan Dargle, owners of the restaurant (Transcript-Kevin Connolly) CALL: (413)664-7811 NORTH ADAMS AND SECTIONS OF ADAMS, WILLIAMSTOWN PITTSFIELD "In the Drowning Pool: A Video Installation by Rita Myers" opens at The Berkshire Museum Jan. 6. The exhibition will run through March 25. New York artist Rita Myers is gaining recognition as one of video art's most important installation artists, as confirmed by her inclusion in two major touring exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe.

Combining classical concerns with concep-tualist sensibilities, Myer's installations mix video images with architectural and natural forms. Her theatrical environments invite of represented meaning in nature and culture. She strives to return to a fundamental understanding of nature while conveying the sense that any understanding is now dependent on technology. In discussing her work, Myers' says, "I'm concerned with the collision course between technology and nature that has been the hallmark of Western society." "In the Drowning Pool" is Myers' most recent work. In it she departs from the large-scale landscape treatments, using miniatures and video projection to model and evoke man's precarious relationship with the environment.

"In the Drowning Pool" is an Intimate new installation in which Myers invites viewers to project themselves into an intriguing imaginitave realm. She describes "In the Drowning Pool" this way: "A small crack In an otherwise vacant gallery wall emits a modulated light Peering into it reveals a landscape scaled for the eye. A rowboat, moored to a gigantic rock, is being lashed by turbulent waves as enormous lightning bolts and spectral images descend upon it Displayed as sky behind the rowboat, projected video animations of lightening bolts are periodically supplanted with their illuminated counterparts, images of personal, natural and 'technological conveying a sense of destruction and transformative intensity. Myers' recent work has been in- Legion auxiliary hosts class party NORTH ADAMS American Legion Auxiliary Frank R. Stiles Unit 125 held its monthly party Nov.

14 for the Greylock School special needs students. The children served cake, decorated in a Thanksgiving theme, ice cream and punch. Each was given a bag of treats. One student with a birthday in November was honored. Volunteers were Roberta Conrad, Margaret Dempsey, Anita Lentine and Margaret Lessig.

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