St. Joseph celebrates Pi Day

By Ashley Luthans

Whether it was with math or dessert, residents across the area enjoyed Pi Day on Thursday.

In the St. Joseph area, community members can find homemade pies at multiple restaurants and bakeries.

Jillian Parisoff is the owner of B&B Runway Café at 100 NW Rosecrans Road, which is known for its homemade pies.

“So, we are known for our pies,” Parisoff said. “We make them from scratch: make the crust, filling, everything daily. And we heard it was Pi Day, so we thought it’d be fun to make some extras and just put out there that we were celebrating Pi Day.”

It’s not just bakeries and restaurants celebrating. The mathematical value of pi is observed as 3.14, making March 14 — 3/14 — the day to celebrate, especially for people like Brant Melvin, a math teacher at Savannah High School.

“Pi is a very famous mathematical constant equivalent to approximately 3.14159,” Melvin said. “This is really just the one holiday that celebrates math as a subject.”

Melvin was excited to celebrate Pi Day as a way to make math fun.

“I’m not sure if you’re aware that most people don’t like math,” Melvin said. “So, we like to celebrate Pi Day to make math a little bit more fun. It’s like one day where we can just enjoy math as not necessarily a rigorous subject, but more as like something fun you can do on your spare time.”