Officials expected to honor two Macon-Bibb leaders

The Macon-Bibb County Commission is expected to sign off Tuesday on honoring two longtime leaders.

Resolutions to name fire stations after Commissioner Bert Bivins and former Bibb County Commissioner Lonzy Edwards will be voted on at next week’s meeting. The resolutions call for Fire Station 111 on Jeffersonville Road to be named after Edwards and Fire Station 3, a relocation of the Breezy Hill station, to be named after Bivins.

Bivins originally was to have the Jeffersonville fire station named after him, however Commissioner Elaine Lucas said it would be more appropriate to swap names of the stations. Bivins represents the district where the new Napier Avenue station will be built, and Edwards lived, worked and was a pastor at Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist in east Bibb where the Jeffersonville station is under construction.

Bivins has been a commissioner since 1995 and was one of the first black students to integrate Bibb County schools.

Edwards was a commissioner from 2007-2013. In the 1980s he serve as a liaison between Mayor George Israel’s office and various organizations such as the NAACP, City Council and Georgia Municipal Association. He passed away in April shortly after having suspended his campaign his bid for mayor due to health reasons.

This story was originally published October 14, 2016 at 4:33 PM with the headline "Officials expected to honor two Macon-Bibb leaders."