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Frank Roger Mazzuca, Sr. (1922 - 9 September 2009) was a
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politician and businessman in
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,
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. As a young man Mazzuca went to work for
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where he was a brakeman for 37 years. In 1950 he opened Mazzuca Furniture & Appliance Co which is still a
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. Frank Mazzuca served as mayor of Capreol from 1975 to 1998, when he was elected chairman of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury in a byelection following the death of
Peter WongPeter Wong was a Canadian politician, who served as mayor of Sudbury, Ontario from 1982 to 1991, and chair of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury from 1997 until his death the following year....
. He served as the final chair of the regional municipality, which was amalgamated into the current city of Greater Sudbury in 2001, and was succeeded as mayor of Capreol by Dave Kilgour.
Frank Mazzuca was a recipient of the
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee MedalThe Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal was a commemorative medal created in 2002 to mark the 50th anniversary of the accession to the throne of Queen Elizabeth II...
in 2002.
During the City of Greater Sudbury's deamalgamation debate in 2006, Mazzuca was a bluntly outspoken advocate of holding a referendum. The community newspaper
Northern Life quoted Mazzuca as saying that "It was a great thing to call up the mayor and say, 'A dog shit on my lawn, what are you going to do about it?' When they'd call me I'd tell them, 'Not my dog, not my lawn, not my shit.'"