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? CENTENNIAL: Free concerts this weekend on Fremont Street CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 and 11 p.m. Other weekend highlights: Free concerts on Fremont Street The two outdoor stages under the canopy host two concert choices today and Saturday, both at 9 p.m. Today, the First Street stage offers Paul R evere & The Raiders, who won’t seem too out of place for those who rem em ber R evere and B ill M edley’s Kicks club in downtown Reno. A On the Third Street stage is A sleep At the W heel, the Ray Benson-led outfit that keeps the W estern swing sound of Bob W ills alive. Saturday brings Benson’s friend Pam T illis to the Third Street stage. Still known in som e circles as M el T illis’ daughter, she’s been singing in her own right since the early ’80s. That’s still not as long as Chubby Checker, on the First Street stage, has been doing “The Twist.” Both days feature local acts perform ing on both stages at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Saturday. Helldorado Days Parade: A whopping 214 entries w ill line up for the Saturday parade along Fourth Street, northbound from Gass Avenue to Ogden Avenue, starting at 10 a m. Expect everything from a stagecoach and farm animals to a flyover by two F-16s. “I don’t think there w ill be anything like this again,” says centennial event planner Esther Carter. There is m usic from 27 high school marching bands. Floats range from big ones by corporate entities such as Ethel M Chocolates down to “a lot of down-home, fam ily-grown floats,” Carter says. City officials expect at least 50,000 people to turn out and watch, though planning and crowd calculations are more difficult than in cities where parades are annual, self-sustaining events. “This is all for the first tim e,” Carter says. “We don’t have a handbook that gives us anything to gauge this by.” The city w ill not monitor parking m eters on Saturday morning, and parking w ill be free at the City Hall garage. ? SEE CENTENNIAL PAGE 7