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Client Name: Fairmont Hotels & Resorts

Title: CATIE COPLEY EMBARKS ON NEW ADVENTURE: CATIE COPLEY’S GREAT ESCAPE,
THE SECOND CHILDREN’S BOOK INSPIRED BY THE FAIRMONT COPLEY PLAZA’S CANINE AMBASSADOR DEBUTS

Date of Release: June 2009
Boston, Massachusetts, Spring/summer, 2009 — This spring, the adventures of Catie Copley, The Fairmont Copley Plaza’s Canine Ambassador continue with the debut of Catie Copley’s Great Escape, a new children’s book, published by David R. Godine - available at The Fairmont Store at The Fairmont Copley Plaza and Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, and bookstores throughout the U.S. and Canada.

In Catie Copley’s Great Escape, Boston’s favourite black Labrador gets the opportunity to meet a new friend - Santol, the Canine Ambassador at Fairmont Le Château Frontenac in Quebec City. In the new book, Catie welcomes Santol to Boston. In their adventure they discover the sites of Boston and then venture to Quebec City to explore Santol’s home. This is Catie's first holiday in a new city where she finds plenty of opportunity for adventure.

Catie Copley’s Great Escape is written by Deborah Kovacs, a Massachusetts-based author of more than 30 children’s books, and features stunning illustrations by Boston-based Jared T. Williams. A portion of the U.S. proceeds from Catie Copley’s Great Escape will be donated to NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans, based in Princeton, Massachusetts. Since 1976, NEADS has trained more than 1,000 service dogs to assist deaf or physically disabled individuals. For more information please visit www.neads.org. A portion of the Canadian proceeds will be donated to MIRA, based near Montreal, Canada. The MIRA Foundation trains more than 150 guide dogs each year to help people with visual, auditory, and physical disabilities. To learn more, please visit www.mira.ca.

Arguably Boston’s most famous dog, Catie Copley joined the hotel’s staff in 2004. A black Labrador originally trained as a guide dog, The Fairmont Copley Plaza adopted Catie when her friendly disposition and a vision problem of her own made her unsuitable as a service dog. Santol, a St. Pierre (a cross between a Bernese mountain dog and a Labernese), was born in Quebec in April 2003. He was trained to be a guide dog by the MIRA Foundation. As each hotel’s canine ambassador Catie and Santol great guests in their lobbies, accompany guests for walks and runs throughout their cities, attend events, serve as community liaisons and are readily available for a few moments of canine companionship and petting. Guests may write to Catie at [email protected] and Santol at [email protected].

David R. Godine is an independent publishing house located in Boston. The company produces around 40 titles a year ranging from fiction to non-fiction, award-winning adult’s and children’s books, and hardcover to paperback. In 2005, Godine published the critically acclaimed Beneath The Streets of Boston. For more information, please visit www.godine.com.

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