The Highline Community College Foundation has received a $155,325 donation from a lifelong Des Moines resident in support of the college and to help struggling students pay for school.

The donor is Daisy S. Sonju who lived near Highline for almost 50 years and died in 2010.

She also donated her 10-acre property on 16th Avenue South to the city of Des Moines. The groundbreaking for the new community garden and pea patch will be in early April.

HCC Foundation is an organization dedicated to raising funds that help provide quality education at Highline.
Upcoming events that support the HCC Foundation include a special performance of Breeders Theater's production, "Casting Call," on Jan. 26 at E.B. Foote Winery in Burien.

The performance benefits the HCC Foundation's Breeders Theater Performing Arts Scholarship.

Tickets are $20. Doors to the E.B. Foote Winery open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m.

Tickets are available from the HCC Foundation and at E.B. Foote Winery, 127 S.W. 153rd St., Suite B, and Corky Cellars, 22511 Marine View Dr. S. in Des Moines.

For more information on the HCC Foundation and how to donate to help needy students, call 206-870-3774 or visit www.funds4highline.org.