Make mine a double snickerdoodle

There are the reporters, computers, telephones and the guys in the back shop, but nothing is more crucial to the survival of the Havre Daily News than one man with a tray, a paragon in an otherwise cookieless world.

You know him as Jim Gabriel.

We call him the bakery man.

At the beginning and end of each week, he enters our office, a tray piled with cookies, cakes and sandwiches in hand, a Northern Lights Bakery hat on his head and a smile on his face.

Gabriel is morning coffee to those of us who don't drink coffee.

It's usually about 9 or 10 a.m. when we hear the voice of Rhonda, our circulat...