The holidays may be over, but there's still a couple more months of winter left to putter through. We know how hard it is not to fall prey to the winter doldrums.

In conjunction with National Radon Action Month in January, the Lake County Health Department/Community Health Center encourages residents to take action and check the radon levels of their homes or apartments. During this month, free testing kits are available for pick up at the Health Department, while supplies last. The kits normally cost $10.00. One kit per household, please.

Before popping open a bottle of bubbly and cranking noise makers, residents were busy on the morning of Dec. 31, finishing up last-minute errands before the clock strikes midnight. NeighborhoodCircle.com caught up with six people in downtown Deerfield, Highland Park and Libertyville to see where they will be ringing in the New Year 2009.

While Christmas trees were being taken down and Hanukkah menorahs packed, Kwanzaa celebrators were setting up kinaras and drums. Kwanzaa is a weeklong holiday which honors African heritage each year from Dec. 26-Jan. 1.

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