Resident Thanks Morses Pond Lifeguards Through Small Gesture

One Wellesley resident urges his friends and neighbors to express gratitude toward the lifeguards and local first responders who worked to find the 10-year-old boy who drowned in Morses Pond on June 1. 

Mark Nikolewski said his two sons and a small group of his friends plan to write letters to the lifeguards as a small gesture to show support through what “must be an unbelievably tough time.”

“I’m sure that part of them, just naturally, feels like they dropped the ball. And they didn’t, from what I can tell,” Nikolewski said. 

After last week’s Board of Selectmen meeting, Nikolewski said he took time to speak with a group of lifeguardsand Morses Pond staff, telling them he’s been thinking about them, and they have the town’s support and love.

“Many an eye welled up,” Nikolewski wrote on his blog this week. 

Nikolewski said the pond has become a centerpiece of his eight and 10-year-old sons’ summers in Wellesley.

“This affected me personally in the same way that the marathon bombings affected my friends who run,” he said.  

Morses Pond reopened last Friday at noon, with a number of new safety features following a series of audits. 

If you want to say thanks to the Lifeguards, leave a comment below!