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<h1>Hurricane relief fund set up for former Arnolds Park mayor</h1>

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<div class="pubdate">Tuesday, September  5, 2017</div>
<div class="byline">By Russ Mitchell with Associated Press reports</div>
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<div class="storyphoto storyphoto-AC withdetails" id="sp2926079"><img src="http://www.dickinsoncountynews.com/photos/29/26/07/2926079-B.jpg"><div class="credit">File photo</div></div><p>Local residents are reaching out to help a longtime former businessman and mayor who relocated to the area ravaged by Hurricane Harvey.</p>
<p>Friends of Mike and Jill Mitchell have established a relief fund at Northwest Bank in Arnolds Park to help the couple. The Mitchells moved from Arnolds Park to Port Aransas, Texas, three years ago.</p>
<p>A management shift at Four Seasons Resort and Dry Dock Lounge prompted Mitchell to leave his job and public office in May 2014. He held the Arnolds Park mayor's position for 20 years.</p>
<p>"I have been fortunate to serve alongside many forward-thinking city council members and there have been considerable improvements made through the years," Mitchell said in a 2013 campaign questionnaire.</p>
<p>Local residents trying to help Mike and Jill say the Mitchells home suffered nearly 100 percent destruction in the storm. Port Aransas saw sustained winds of up to 132 mph.</p>
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<p>Some shoreline communities that bore the brunt of Hurricane Harvey still need clean water, electricity and health care more than a week after the winds and rain subsided.</p>
<p>Locals in Port Aransas, Seadrift and Sargent, Texas, awoke on Aug. 25 expecting a hurricane along the lines of Bret and Dolly  storms weak enough to have their names recycled by the National Hurricane Center.</p>
<p>But by nightfall, when it was too late for more people to leave, Harvey had grown stronger than Katrina, throwing winds of 130 mph.</p>
<p>Fewer than 20 hurricanes to hit the U.S. have been as strong as Harvey, according to the National Hurricane Center, which retires the names of storms that are particularly nasty. Harvey fits the bill for its wind speed, barometric pressure and impact on human suffering.</p>
<p>Anyone who would like to help the Mitchells may visit Northwest Bank in Arnolds Park or call the bank at <a href="tel:7123325636">(712) 332-5636</a> for more information.</p>
<p><em>Kelly P. Kissel of the Associated Press provided coverage used in this article.</em></p>
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