Craig Lovell's legacy continues to live on and his family was in Port Fairy to witness another chapter of it on Tuesday.
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Mr Lovell, who passed away in 2012, was Port Fairy's ambulance station team leader.
He was a key figure in the early push to have the station moved from the Princes Highway into the Moyne Health Services' campus.
That goal has become reality, with the official opening of the station on Tuesday.
Mr Lovell's widow, Vicki, and their daughters Kasie Finnegan and Steff Lovell and 15-month-old granddaughter Ruby were on hand for the opening. His son Sam was unable to attend.
Mrs Lovell said her husband was passionate about the establishment of a new station.
"It's great to see the new station, he'd be so happy, he loved his job and loved Port Fairy," she said.
"The Port Fairy ambulance covers a big area so Craig knew how important their job was."
Kasie said her dad would have been impressed with the quality of the new station, while Steff said his go-getting nature could have continued to have an influence.
"If he was still here it would have been opened even sooner, he would have kept pushing pretty hard to get it done," she said.
Minister for Ambulance Services Jenny Mikakos was in Port Fairy to open the new station, which is located on the corner of Regent and College streets.
Moyne and Warrnambool Ambulance senior team leader Jo O'Connor-Ward said the Port Fairy station was manned by three paramedics and 15 Ambulance community support officers.
"The move to the new station is an amazing boost, it allows us to effectively manage and engage staff, our previous site was really just one big room," Ms O'Connor-Ward said.
"Being able to provide better training is the biggest thing and that will help us attract more ambulance community support officers."
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