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Neil Young To Receive The Allan Waters Humanitarian Award At Junos

Neil Young hasn't attended the Juno Awards in 29 years, but the Canadian music legend will be on hand to accept the 2011 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at the 40th anniversary show, March 27, at Toronto's Air Canada Centre.

Young, co-founder of Farm Aid and the Bridge School Benefit Concert, is receiving the esteemed award as "an outstanding Canadian artist whose humanitarian contributions have positively enhanced the social fabric of Canada," according to the criteria from The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), the organization behind the Junos.

Named after the founder of media conglomerate CHUM Ltd., past recipients of the Allan Waters Humanitarian include Bryan Adams (2010), Sarah McLachlan (2009), Paul Brandt (2008), Tom Jackson (2007) and Bruce Cockburn (2006).

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Jake’s Great Give: Adding Rungs To Jacob’s Ladder

Jacob Schwartz is a modern miracle. Most children afflicted with Canavan disease, a rare neurodegenerative ailment that shuts down their body muscle by muscle, rarely see their fifth birthday. However, Jacob has defied the odds and then some.

“He is completely a modern miracle,” agrees Ellen Schwartz, Jacob’s mom and co-founder – with his dad Jeff – of Jacob’s Ladder, the Canadian Foundation for the Control of Neurodegenerative Disease.

“When he was diagnosed at four months, we were told he wouldn’t live past his fourth birthday. And although he’s very disabled, he just turned 13. We just had a Bar Mitzvah.”

Life for Jacob is a daily struggle.

* Samaritanmag.com is an online magazine covering the good deeds of individuals, charities and businesses.

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