Gary Sipperley has been a Twain Harte resident since 1991. He served in the Army at Ft. Ord and in Vietnam and retired as a supervisor for the Social Security Administration. He later became a reporter and editor for the (now-defunct) Sierra Mountain Times. He has served on the board of directors of Twain Harte Homeowners and has been president of the Twain Harte Area Chamber of Commerce and the Central Sierra Arts Council. He served on the THCSD board from 2007 until 2009, when he left to serve in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia. He re-joined the CSD board in 2012.