By Carol Saffer<\/p>\n
In these times of Instagram and Facebook posts the Rotary Club of Bacchus Marsh is testing the hard-copy nostalgia market selling a six-pack of \u2018Bacchus Marsh Days Gone By\u2019 postcards to raise funding for community youth projects.
\nTeaming up with Rotary, local business What Knot\u2019s Picture Framing owner Steve Hicks prints the cards and Pete Drever sells the cards for $14 a packet in his Bacchus Marsh Authorised Newsagency on Main Street.
\nRotary Club member Alan Morton says while sales of the six-pack black and white postcards over the past three months has been slow, packs of colour cards are on the way in a bid to increase sales.
\nMr Morton says \u201cin this age with digital phones and Facebook and Instagram everything is instant. It is probably going to be a hard thing to push.\u201d
\n\u201cIn reality [they] probably won\u2019t be mega sellers.
\n\u201cRotary at this stage is testing the market using the advantage of modern printing technology having no minimum print runs,\u201d he said.
\nMr Drever says Rotary and Mr Hicks have done a great job printing and presenting the postcards with visitors to the town their main customers.
\nMr Morton said What Knot\u2019s can print just one card if necessary.
\n\u201cSteve is printing small amounts of the card pack at the moment to see whether or not [the idea] has any traction.\u201d
\nWhile the money raised from the sales of the postcards may not be mega it will go towards projects that in general give local youth access to training or education to develop better life skills.
\n\u201cThis could be supporting local students on overseas exchange programs or sending them to Summer Science School at Canberra National University as well as a week-long residential personal development program for young people aged 18 to 25 years,\u201d Mr Morton said.
\nThe post cards make ideal gifts, with Christmas just around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Carol Saffer In these times of Instagram and Facebook posts the Rotary Club of Bacchus Marsh is testing the hard-copy nostalgia market selling a six-pack of \u2018Bacchus Marsh Days Gone By\u2019 postcards to raise funding for community youth projects. Teaming up with Rotary, local business What Knot\u2019s Picture Framing owner Steve Hicks prints the […]<\/p>\n