Celine Dion Lends Her Support to Las Vegas' Opportunity Village; Fundraiser to Help People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Entertainment Editors/Business Editors

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2004

Grammy award-winning Celine Dion has decided to lend her support to Opportunity Village, a non-profit organization serving people with intellectual disabilities in Southern Nevada. To show her support, Dion will dedicate a special performance of "A New Day..." at Caesars Palace to Opportunity Village on Easter Sunday, April 11, 2004. With her donation, she will touch the lives of thousands of people with disabilities and their families.

Dion's commitment will include a personal donation of 3,700 seats to her show in the custom-built, 4,100-seat Colosseum at Caesars Palace. All concert proceeds will go to Opportunity Village. In addition, Dion and her husband, Rene Angelil will make a personal donation of $150,000. The proceeds from the concert seats plus the personal donation will total approximately $500,000. Caesars Palace will also donate 400 seats to Opportunity Village to solicit sponsorship. All contributions will be used to help build a new $21 million campus for intellectually disabled adults in southwest Las Vegas.

"We have fallen in love with this wonderful organization and the brave individuals it serves," Dion said. "Opportunity Village has been working so hard for the past 50 years, helping thousands of adults with disabilities and their families. They deserve international exposure and I am honored to be able to help them deliver their message on behalf of people with profound disabilities."

"We are overjoyed to have a world renowned vocalist such as Celine lend her name and talents to help support the people served by Opportunity Village," said Linda Smith, chief development officer of Opportunity Village. "On average, there are approximately 8 million people in the U.S. currently living with an intellectual disability, nearly 45,000 of those individuals reside in Southern Nevada."

Dion has performed her multi-million dollar show, produced by Concerts West, an AEG Live Company, five nights a week to sold out audiences since its premiere on March 25, 2003. In addition to Dion's personal commitment, Concerts West and Caesars Entertainment, parent company of Caesars Palace, have pledged their support and played a major role in Dion's involvement with this special performance dedicated to Opportunity Village.

To purchase general admission tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com, www.celinedion.com or www.caesars.com; call Ticketmaster at 1-877-4CELINE (1-877-423-5463); or visit The Colosseum Box Office, open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Opportunity Village sponsor packages to this special performance are currently available at the following levels: Corporate $100,000, Diamond $50,000, Platinum $25,000, Gold $10,000 and Silver $5,000. For more information on Opportunity Village and sponsorship opportunities, call 702-880-4051 or visit www.opportunityvillage.org.

Established in 1954, Opportunity Village is Nevada's largest private provider of vocational training, employment, advocacy and recreation serving nearly 600 people with intellectual disabilities in the Las Vegas community. The non-profit organization manages two campuses, two work training centers and a thrift store located in Las Vegas. Since its inception, Opportunity Village has saved Nevada's taxpayers more than $800 million by training and placing thousands of disabled adults who otherwise might have had to depend on government assistance.

Opportunity Village is also the third largest and only accredited document destruction company in the state. In addition, Opportunity Village's intellectually disabled employees serve approximately 800,000 meals at Nellis Air Force Base and clean over 7 million square feet of parking lot and office space per year. Some of the organization's other projects include assembling gift boxes and hotel condiment packets, placing stickers on bingo daubers and sewing simple pillows and scarves.