SANDPOINT — Grab your camo and join the fun!

Tickets for the ninth-annual “24 Hours of Schweitzer” auction and awards dinner are now available. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased online at www.24hoursforhank.org.

The dinner and auction includes more than 75 live and silent auction items contributing to one of the leading cystinosis fundraisers in the country.

Dinner will feature Schweitzer’s chefs at their best, preparing beef, duck, venison, buffalo and game hen. desserts will include hazelnut eggrolls with strawberry coulis, chocolate donuts with Crème Anglaise and chocolate chip brownie bites. Doors will open at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 25 in the Caribou Room.

“It’s been an incredible eight years since the event first began. What started with small beginnings as a way to raise money for a cure for Hank and others with cystinosis has grown bigger each year. We have family, friends and community supporters in Sandpoint, Coeur d’Alene and Spokane and beyond to thank for our foundation’s growth into one of the largest cystinosis fundraisers in the nation,” said Brian Sturgis, Hank’s dad and event organizer. “Thanks to donations raised in Sandpoint and around the country, real progress is being made in the development of promising new cystinosis treatments, and each day we are getting closer to a cure.”

More than 75 live and silent auction items will be available for bidding, including a Slope-Side Condo for one week at Breckenridge Colorado, a seven night stay at Waipouli Beach Resort & Spa on Kauai, X-Craft Drone with private lessons and Summer Dinner Party with Chef Peter Tobin at Schweitzer’s New Sky House Lodge.

The after-party, featuring live music by The Rub, will be held in Taps Lounge at the conclusion of the auction around 9:00 p.m. to midnight.

The event benefits 24 Hours for Hank, a Sandpoint foundation that has raised more than a million dollars for cystinosis research and treatment. Funds raised locally are contributed to the national Cystinosis Research Foundation to help find a cure for this extremely rare, genetic disease that slowly destroys every organ in the body including the kidneys, liver, eyes, muscles, thyroid and brain.

Space is still available at the all-day, all-night ski relay March 24-25, sponsored by Trask Britt, SimulStat Incorporated, Kochava and Horizon Pharmaceuticals, which is one of only four events like it in the country.

Skiers, telemarkers and snowboarders of all ages and abilities raise pledges and ski or ride for 24 hours as two or four-member teams.

The annual event, which celebrates its 9th anniversary this year, is held in honor of 10-year-old Hank Sturgis of Sandpoint, who has the rare, fatal disease. The entry fee is $150 plus $100 in pledges. The entry fee includes a lift ticket, event T-shirt, participation award, meals, equipment support, sleeping bag accommodations in Lakeview Lodge, hotel discounts at Selkirk Lodge, and one ticket to the auction/awards party. Awards will recognize youngest and oldest participants, top teams.

Information: 208-610-2131, 24hoursforhank.org or 24hoursofschweitzer.com.