Young scanning his way through health department internship

The Holmes County Health Department is filled with plenty of hardworking people, but they have another addition this year by the way of a young intern named Nathan Young.

Young’s name is recognizable because his father is Holmes County engineer Chris Young, but this Young is making his own way into the working world in a different organization, and he’s enjoying his summer doing so.

Young, a 2025 Hiland High School graduate, will enter his freshman year at Kent State University this fall, but in the meantime, he is picking up experience working with the health department with the goal of majoring in environmental health.

Recently, Young spent some time as a volunteer with the Holmes County Soil & Water Conservation District’s Conservation Day Camp, where he fulfilled a multitude of different roles.

At the health department, he has had a more singular aspect of work, that being scanning documents for the health department’s new GIS system for the sewage treatment plants.

“It’s been a good experience so far,” Young said. “This type of thing is really good for me to experience, and it’s important work in getting the new system in place.”

Young said there are close to 20,000 files to scan throughout the entire process, so he knows what he will do a great deal this summer.

“I’m currently at around 1,000, so I have plenty of work ahead of me,” Young said, although he made that statement July 9, so he certainly has added to that number already.

Young said he has had a wonderful experience working alongside the many employees at the health department, and it has been a fulfilling summer thus far.

“Everyone has been so nice, and they’ve treated me like one of their own,” Young said.

As for where his degree will take him, Young said he could see himself coming back to Holmes County, but he also could see himself settling in wherever the job market might take him some day down the road.

For now he will focus on the scanning work, which should keep him plenty busy as the summer rolls along.