The LaPorte community continues to hold out hope for a businessman kidnapped in Iraq three years ago Friday.

Jeffrey Ake was working as a private contractor in Iraq when he disappeared from a water treatment facility near Baghdad.

Ake was last seen in a video shown on an Al Jazeera television station.

But there is still no word on his whereabouts or what happened to him.

A website was set up so people can get updated information and donate to the Ake family.

The address for that site is http://jeffake.com.