Weatherly officer uses personal tragedies to help others overcome

Weatherly patrolman Ashley Fedor said law-abiders get as much attention as the law-breakers in the Carbon County borough. “We’re all humans. We’re (police) no different than anyone else,” she said. Everyone has their own struggles. Fedor knows what devastation feels like, she understands what it is to work hard while grappling to pay the bills. She was only 10 when her father died, leaving her mom to raise three girls alone. Two years later Fedor began working as a waitress at a Tamaqua restaurant and after graduating from Tamaqua High School in 2004 she headed to the Lackawanna Police Academy in 2005. She always wanted to be a police officer, ignoring the people who told her she couldn’t do it because she was a woman. What she’d find was a woman brings her own set of innate skills to police work.

Fedor said law-abiders get as much attention as the law-breakers in the Carbon County borough. “We’re all humans. We’re (police) no different than anyone else,” she said. Everyone has their own struggles. Fedor knows what devastation feels like, she understands what it is to work hard while grappling to pay the bills. She was only 10 when her father died, leaving her mom to raise three girls alone. Two years later Fedor began working as a waitress at a Tamaqua restaurant and after graduating from Tamaqua High School in 2004 she headed to the Lackawanna Police Academy in 2005. She always wanted to be a police officer, ignoring the people who told her she couldn’t do it because she was a woman. What she’d find was a woman brings her own set of innate skills to police work.