How nice does a 65 degree mornings feel, right?

It was one of the best times of the year in the Bath-Brunswick Midcoast region as many of the businesses who closed for the winter are back up and running, and there is a pleasant buzz of constant activity all around.

The Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber is dealing with three projects right now that focus on fun in the sun and should help you with your planning for the summer. Be a part of some of it, or all of it, but please share this news with your neighbors and friends.

First off there is the sixth annual Hacker’s Ball Chamber Golf Tournament which we highlighted last week. Please be aware we have had a date change. The tournament was originally scheduled for this Friday, May 11, but due to some unforeseen issues, we need to move the tournament until next month. Therefore, if you were planning to show up and play this Friday — we will not be there.

However, feel free to join us on our new tournament date, Friday June 15 for the tourney.

Thank you to AJ and Brittany over at Brunswick Golf Club for working with us on finding a new date. Everything else is the same — still $85 per player or $340 for a foursome. $15 enhancement packages will be offered for those wanting mulligans, strings and skirts. We will still have the post-tournament raffles, the closest to the pin, the chipping contest, the putting contest and longest drives.

And we will still have our three special guests helping at three holes with the air cannon, Old Hickory Golf and Captive Drone. The air cannon is back for its third year and is a pressurized cannon that lets you shoot a ball onto the green of a par 4. There is an air cannon pro who helps you aim and a spotter on the green to tell you how close you got.

Old Hickory Golf is a program featuring a golf enthusiast who dresses up like 1913 U.S. Open Champion Francis Ouimet. Golfers have a chance to replicate Ouimet’s winning shot from 1913 using a replica hickory shafted club.

Finally, Captive Drone is a local drone company who will be filming a par 3 for each team and giving the video to the golfers as a keepsake. So if someone on your team gets a hole-in-one you will have that treasured keepsake for all time. Or if someone on your team crumbles under the pressure and shanks a shot into the lake, you will have that as a treasured keepsake too.

For details or to register, call the chamber office at (207) 725-8797 or log onto midcoastmaine.com and find the listing on our event calendar.

Speaking of an event calendar, the chamber is coming back with our second edition of the Midcoast Calendar of Events. This is a simple piece listing events by date from June 1 through Dec. 31. The list is aggregated by compiling the event listings of about 20 community organizations.

For instance, the calendar lists the performances at the Maine State Music Theatre, Orion Performing Arts Center, The Theater Project, The Chocolate Church, Bowdoin International Music Festival and all of the summer outdoor concerts in Harpswell, Bath, Brunswick, Bowdoinham and Wiscasset.

We list selected events from local organizations like Brunswick Downtown Association, Maine Street Bath, Harpswell Business Association, Topsham Public Library, Curtis Memorial Library, Patten Free Library, Maine Maritime Museum and the Topsham Fairgrounds.

We will also include larger tourism events even if they are in neighboring communities, such as L.L. Bean’s Outdoor Concert events, Coastal Maine Botanical Garden events, and events from as far away as Rockland, Camden, Portland and Augusta.

If you have large events that you would like to submit to be included in the 2018 Midcoast Calendar of Events, please send them today to the chamber office by emailing at executivedirector@midcoastmaine.com, admin@midcoastmaine.com or give us a call.

The finished piece will be distributed to area lodging facilities, local restaurants and will be available for download from the chamber website. The Bath Regional Information Center and Brunswick Train Station will both be supplied with stacks of copies for distribution. They will be available by June 1, and will be delivered the week of Memorial Day to distribution sites.

Finally, the chamber is extremely excited to introduce the 2018 Chamber Guest Guide. The guide has been fully redesigned and will be printed over the next two weeks before landing at our office in Brunswick just days before Memorial Day weekend.

The timing is tight but we will be hitting the road before Memorial Day and likely straight through the first week of June to get these distributed. The first locations to receive these will be the advertising businesses in the book, the Brunswick Train Station, the Bath Regional Information Center and the Maine Tourism Association. MTA is responsible for distributing the guides to the rest areas throughout the Maine state highway system.

It cannot be stressed enough just how different the content in this guide is from previous versions. Many of you may know it as the Allure of the Coast, but the title has changed too. We figured if the photos are new, the format is new and the content is new, then the title needs to be new as well. We think you will be as happy with it as we are, but if you have ideas for how it can contain more relevant information, we love your feedback. When it comes out, please check it thoroughly and give us any advice so we can make it even better.

Look for a more in-depth profile of the new guide in the coming weeks. If you have any questions about the projects listed above, please don’t hesitate to contact the chamber office.

It’s going to be a great summer and it starts today.