Try This: Our Days enlivens La Center

La Center’s Our Days Festival celebrates this north Clark County community with family activities, including an antique car show, vendor booths, live entertainment and a carnival. Visitors can also check out the festival’s lawn mower races or take part in a street dance.

Events: Antique car show, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today.

Vendor booths, live entertainment, and children’s activities and carnival, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.

Lawn mower races, 1-4 p.m. today.

Street dance, 7-10:30 p.m. today.

A complete list of activities is available online.

When: Today.

Where: City Park, 1000 E. Fourth St., La Center.

Admission: Free.

On the Web: http://ourdays.info.

The festival is one of several weekend entertainment options in Clark County and Portland. Others include a vintage base ball game, an art exhibit and a theater production put on by two Clark County arts groups.

1. Batter up!

Two vintage “base ball” teams will step back in time today. The teams will re-enact games played at Fort Vancouver 140 years ago. The game, written as two words back then, will be played with 1860s rules. Those rules included the pitcher throwing underhand, the batter telling the pitcher where to throw, and the fielders playing without gloves.

When: 6 p.m. today.

Where: Parade ground, near Evergreen Boulevard and Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver.

Admission: Free.

Telephone: 360-816-6230.

On the Web: http://nps.gov/fova.

2. Watercolor works on display in Vancouver

Vancouver painter Skip Enge is in the spotlight at downtown Vancouver’s Aurora Gallery. Enge will display panoramic watercolor images through Aug. 31.

Hours: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

Where: 1004 Main St., Vancouver.

Telephone: 360-696-0449.

On the Web: http://auroragalleryonline.com.

3. Historical museum exhibit wraps up soon

There is only one week left to see “Putting People to Work: The WPA in Washington.” The exhibit, continuing through Aug. 28, examines how the New Deal and the Works Progress Administration created jobs for the unemployed in Washington.

“Road to Equality: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in the Northwest” is also on display. It looks at some of the women from the Pacific Northwest who played a role in the women’s suffrage movement.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.

Where: 1511 Main St., Vancouver.

Admission: $4; $3 for seniors and college students with identification; $2 for children 6-18; free for children 5 and younger. Anyone who has been laid off due to the recession will receive free admission to the museum through Aug. 28. The free admission is offered in conjunction with the “Putting People to Work” exhibit. All active-duty military personnel and their families will receive free admission through Sept. 6.

Telephone: 360-993-5679.

On the Web: http://cchmuseum.org.

4. Wild West drama on the railroad

Costumed re-enactors portraying bandits will attempt to “rob” the passengers aboard the Chelatchie Prairie Railroad this weekend. It will be up to the marshal to save the day. In addition to the mock robbery, the train passes through a 330-foot tunnel, goes past Moulton Falls and through forests of north Clark County.

When: Noon and 2:30 p.m. today and Sunday.

Where: Chelatchie Prairie Railroad, 207 S. Railroad Ave., Yacolt.

Admission: $15; $14 for seniors 60 and older; $10 for children 5-11; $8 for children 2-4; free for children 1 and younger.

Telephone: 360-686-3559.

On the Web: http://bycx.com.