District Information
Information on the Twin Valley Council districts and the communities each district serves can be found here: Council District Pages
Council Vision Committee Report
Vision for the next 5 - 10 years in Program, Membership Growth & Retention, Facility, Financial, and Manpower Needs.
Past Silver Beaver Recipients
The Silver Beaver Award is made for the distinguished and outstanding service to youth within the territory under the jurisdiction of the Twin Valley Council. The Silver Beaver is awarded to both male and female Scouters. This award is the highest honor a council can bestow upon a Scouting volunteer.
Council Awards
for Youth and Adults
Eagle Applications
Eagle Scout Service will now accept Eagle Scout applications that have been downloaded from the web. We prefer the application be downloaded from the National BSA web site through the link on Twin Valley Council's "On-Line Forms" page.
The Twin Valley Council Center for Scouting is responsible for checking the applications to ensure it is the most current application and all applications have original signatures. Applications received that are not the most current will be returned to be resubmitted on a correct application with original signatures.
We hope this will make it easier for Eagle candidates who make a mistake to download a new application from the web site. We will continue to provide Eagle applications through the Center for Scouting.
Volunteer Background Checks
Recently the Boy Scouts of America began a process to obtain authorization for criminal background checks from volunteers who have continuously served in the same volunteer positions. Since 2003 background checks have been conducted on new volunteers when they registered. Background checks were not performed on those volunteers who did not change their unit or position. The new volunteer authorization Web site opened on June 1 2008 and was available until August 1 2008.
Letters were sent in early June to volunteers requesting that they visit the site, log in, and accept the background-check authorization. Volunteers who give authorization will receive the background check and need to do nothing more.
Volunteers who did not give their agreement, or who took no action to respond to the letter, are required to submit a new adult application when it is time to renew their registration. To protect our youth members, those volunteers who did not have the background check will have their registration expired. These adults will not be listed for selection at the time of charter renewal.
Units that use Internet Rechartering for online renewal will need to enter these adults, if they are to be registered, as new adults and submit the volunteer applications to the council along with their renewal.
Units that renew using the paper application must submit the volunteer application for these adults, if they are to be registered, with the charter renewal papers.
Background checks will be conducted on all new volunteers beginning in August 2008. The BSA introduced this summer a new application which replaced previous versions of the adult BSA application. The form includes a new authorization and disclosure statement. Units should use this new application to ensure that new adult registrants use the proper authorization and disclosure statement. Units may obtain the new adult application from the council or can download the application here.
Scouting Newspaper Articles Needed!
Send us your local newspaper articles and pictures featuring your Scouts in action. We will be starting a bulletin board at the Center for Scouting, which shows “Scouts in Action” from throughout the council service area. When Scouts, parents, and other individuals visit the Center for Scouting, they will be able to see pictures and newsworthy articles of what Scouts in other parts of the council are doing. Articles can be sent to: Scouts in Action, Twin Valley Council, 810 Madison Ave., Mankato, Minnesota, 56001.
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