Fryeburg Town Column: Harvest Hills to hold annual Christmas Eve Sleepover

Christmas is right around the corner and Harvest Hills Animal Shelter is pleased to introduce this year’s Christmas Eve Sleepover celebrity, 7-year-old Ollie. Ollie is the son of the shelters’ vet tech and has been an outstanding foster brother to hundreds of Harvest Hills’ animals over the years. He is a super celebrity to all who know him and will be to you, too. He has been socializing kittens since he was in diapers and started bottle feeding some of their most vulnerable babies at just 4 years old. Caring for animals may be in this boy’s genes, but his compassion and eagerness to learn is admirable.

Oliver’s favorite activity is building forts for foster kittens to hang out in with him, and of course, teaching them how to play. What started as a sarcastic “We could be spending Christmas Eve at the shelter” turned into one excited young boy and a very emphatic “Yes!” Join the shelter crew in thanking Oliver for giving up his comfy bed at home on Christmas Eve to play Santa at the shelter and give the animals all the love and attention they deserve. Let’s make this the biggest shelter sleepover fundraiser to date by helping Oliver meet his goals. Please make sure you designate “sleepover” when you send in your donations.