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GREENSBORO — Going downtown this weekend?

Budget a little extra time to get from place to place. There will be a lot of extra people around.

N.C. A&T estimates more than 25,000 alumni and Aggies football fans will attend Homecoming events this weekend, and Aggie Fanfest will be the focal point.

Aggie Fanfest will be held today through Sunday at War Memorial Stadium on Yanceyville Street, near the A&T campus.

The family-friendly event will include carnival games and rides, food vendors and live music. It runs from 11 a.m. to midnight today, 7 a.m. to midnight Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Aggie Fanfest also will serve as the primary viewing spot for A&T’s Homecoming parade Saturday.

The parade, which starts at 8 a.m. Saturday, will assemble on Murrow Boulevard and travel down Murrow, East Lindsay Street and end at the corner of East Lindsay and Laurel streets.

There are five performance stops along the route.

Time Warner Cable will show a taped broadcast of the parade on Channel 58 at 1 p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday.

Other Homecoming highlights:

• Rapper Doug E. Fresh at the block party to kick off Aggie Fanfest this afternoon at War Memorial Stadium.
• 30th annual Richard E. Moore Memorial Golf Tournament at Grandover Resort, shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. today.
• Royal reception for former Miss N.C. A&T at Exhibit Hall of Memorial Student Union, 11 a.m. today.
• Pan-Hellenic Step Show at Greensboro Coliseum, 7 p.m. today.
• “A Soldier’s Play” at Paul Robeson Theatre, 8 p.m. today and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.
• An alumni concert featuring Charlie Wilson of the Gap Band and En Vogue at Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center is scheduled for 8 p.m. today.
• Morgan State at N.C. A&T football game at Aggie Stadium, 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
• “The Put On” Homecoming concert with Young Jeezy featuring T-Pain and Rick Ross, Shawty Lo & Plies at Greensboro Coliseum, 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
• Affirmation service, sponsored by A&T Alumni Association, at Harrison Auditorium, 9:30-11 a.m. Sunday.

Contact Jeff Mills at 373-7024 or jeff.mills@news-record.com