MOULTRIE, Ga. — The fourth annual Holland Holloway Boston Butt Benefit is currently under way.

While the deadline to purchase tickets for the event has passed, the benefit is still accepting donations to one of four corporate sponsor levels — $250, $500, $1,000, or $2,500.

For those who have already purchased a ticket, the butts will be available for pick up on Wednesday, Nov. 27, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Southern Tractor or Norman Park Elementary School. In Lowndes County, they can be picked up at Azalea Church of God.

This year’s benefit has been put together to help Cade Kremer, who was only a day old when he was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF), a heart condition made up of four related congenital defects that occur due to abnormal development of the heart. The four defects include a ventricular septal defect, pulmonary valve stenosis (the narrowing or restriction of a blood vessel or valve that reduces blood flow), a misplaced aorta and a thickened right ventricular wall.

At 6 weeks old, Cade underwent his first open heart surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta, a successful but temporary fix. Cade will require more surgeries as he grows older, but the family is taking things one day at a time.

The annual fundraiser began as a way to help another child with a heart condition.

 “We started it for my granddaughter,” said Kenny Clark, grandfather of Holland Holloway.

Holland was 6 weeks old when she was diagnosed with truncus arteriosus Type 1 and interrupted aortic arch. Truncus arteriosus is a condition in which the blood vessel coming out of the heart fails to separate during development — meaning that one vessel was serving as both aorta and pulmonary artery — and an interrupted aortic arch is an extremely rare condition in which the aorta doesn’t develop normally before birth.

“A group of friends and I started it when she was baby to help raise money for her and her parents and we’ve just been keeping it going every year now,” said Clark.

This is the third year that the benefit has been operating.

“We’d like to thank anybody who’s willing to help and anybody who has helped. We’re looking for all the support we can get so that we can continue to help other families with babies with heart defects,” said Clark.

According to Cade’s mother Rebecca Kremer, the family was chosen from the recommendation of another Heart Mom, a mother with a child born with heart defects.

“Thank you. So much. It was kind of crazy how this all happened. You think you’re not going to be able to make it through, but then you get picked for the benefit and now his father will be able to take off work to come and be there for his next surgery,” said Cade’s mother, Rebecca. “Seriously, thank you.”