John Cardullo  •  General Manager  •  john@cvmrink.com

John Cardullo is the General Manager of the Cranston Veterans Memorial Ice Rink. He comes to the rink 50 years after he began at the rink in his first job as a youth.  

A lifelong Rhode Islander, his sports experience is extensive, as a player, coach and sponsor of youth and high school sports. He has been the Public Address Announcer for the CCRI Men’s and Women’s Soccer teams, and for both the Cranston East and Cranston West football, Cranston East Boys and Girls basketball for 12 years. He then moved on as an announcer to the Central HS, Juanita Sanchez and Mt. Pleasant football teams, as well as Central HS Boys and Girls Basketball, Scituate High School Boys and Girls Basketball, Johnston High School Girls Basketball, Boys Volleyball, Girls Softball, Boys and Girls Soccer teams, and CLCF football. 

John has been involved in men’s softball for 61 years, starting as a batboy for his father’s team in 1964. He moved to the team’s scorekeeper then became a player in 1975, and created the men’s team, Players Corner Pub, that went on to win 20 State Championships in their 35 year history.  

In the 1990’s he published the statewide, award-winning softball magazine “The Fielders Choice” which was dedicated to all topics related to adult softball, and won several media awards. In 2019 he was elected and inducted into the Rhode Island Slow Pitch Softball Hall of Fame, which he also helped create. John is a sportswriter for RINewsToday.com, covering the local sports scene. 

John has been a softball umpire in Warwick, Rhode Island. After retiring from the printing Industry after a 45-year career, he now writes specialty sports columns for RINewsToday.com, and is still actively engaged in the high school sports scene and athletic administration. 

In his spare time John golfs with his lifelong friends. He has also worked at the Warwick Ice Rink, part time, for the past 8 years, and has worked in several areas as a project manager at the Cranston Senior Center and for the City of Cranston.

Jewell Augustine  •  Learn To Skate Director  •  skatewjewell@aol.com

Jewell Augustine is a dedicated Figure Skating instructor with thirty tour years of experience teaching children and adults. She is skilled at teaching skating fundamentals to all ages and abilities. Her goal is simple, to help anyone interested to learn the fundamentals of the sport and begin a lifetime commitment to health and wellness.