Thanksgiving Reunion: Woman reconnects with Jim Gardner after first 'meeting' during 1979 parade

Tuesday, November 26, 2019
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- We are a little over two days and counting from the start of the 100th 6abc Dunkin' Thanksgiving Day Parade.

To celebrate the milestone, we are bringing back some familiar and beloved faces.
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Dave Roberts and Lisa Thomas-Laury will be returning to the parade they co-hosted for 21 years.



But Dave and Lisa are not the only ones thinking about parades past.

It was 1979, when our Jim Gardner met 1-year-old Cara Ventresca at the Hatboro Thanksgiving Parade.



Cara's mom recently sent Action News a photo taken with Jim and Cara at that parade and we were able to track Cara down. She now lives in Plymouth Meeting with her husband Rick and two children.
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Woman reunited with Jim Gardner after first 'meeting' during 1979 parade. Jim Gardner has more on Action News at 4 p.m. on November 25, 2019.



Cara, now Cara Kish, recently stopped by to visit Jim and the Action News family, along with her 10-year-old son Nathan and 8-year-old daughter Kelsey, and her mom, who asked to take the original photo with Jim 40 years ago.

"It was always something in our family -- the picture. If fact, in the beginning, when I was little, I thought it was my dad," Cara laughs speaking about the photo, "so it was a joke, that's Cara with dad and my mom would say, 'No it's not, it's Jim Gardner.'"

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