Business View Civil and Municipal | March 2021

31 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL MARCH 2021 CL INTON, MI SS I SS I PP I and we went into the classroom,” Fisher recalls. “The lady there was teaching us about sea life. You could actually walk to the edge of the ocean, step off into the water, sink down and find the particular plant, whale, porpoise, whatever you were looking for and follow it around instead of just looking at a one-dimensional picture of it.” Clinton High School is the first high school in the continental United States to be granted a charter from the international academic honor society Phi Theta Kappa. The city likes to share the wealth, too. The more people that come to Clinton and surrounding area, the better for everyone. Fisher confides, “I’m a strong believer in ‘the rising water lifts all boats’. If you don’t want to come to Clinton, or next door to Clinton, and you want to go down the road to Bolton or to Vicksburg or Byram, or one of these other small cities, we still benefit, just like they benefit from Continental. We benefit from whatever else may come there because people are going to still want to find a