Good morning, Evanston.

The Evanston/North Shore NAACP will host its 62nd annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Saturday, Nov.

21, 6 to 10 p.m., at Fountain Blue Banquets & Conference Center, 2300 Mannheim Rd., Des Plaines, featuring keynote Yusef D. Jackson and presentations of several community awards; tickets are $150.

Volunteers finished building a kid-designed playground at Clyde-Brummel Park on Thursday with Mallory and Dansby Swanson after their Purpose & Calling Foundation gave a $200,000 grant that the city matched.

The new playground at 600 Brummel St. will open Friday, Nov. 6 at 11 a.m.

Evanston mom Sheena Lawrick will run the New York City Marathon on Nov.

1 to raise more than $20,000 for Memorial Sloan Kettering as part of Fred’s Team + Team Inspire, honoring the care that treated her son Gus’s retinoblastoma.

The Evanston Farmers' Market is full of fall produce this week, including squash, apples, persimmons, pears, cabbages, winter greens, and root vegetables, offering fresh ingredients for easy seasonal recipes (pumpkin-turkey chili, kale pesto pasta, apple smoothies, apple-cider margaritas).