You don’t have to be lucky to be good, but there’s no arguing that when it came to swinging a golf club Pete Sherba was extremely fortuitous.
That 17th hole shot came with a $10,000 payoff. $4,000 of it was donated to the PG Community Foundation and he also bought a round for everyone in the clubhouse.The last one for Sherba came on Feb. 18, 2018 when he was 84 at his winter home in Mesa, Ariz., and that comes with a funny story. Sherba died Oct. 7, just 11 days shy of his 90th birthday, a few years after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Sherba, 34 at the time, was selected as the all-star third of the Brier and the Prince George team came home to a heroes’ reception. A crowd of about 1,000 met their plane on the airport tarmac and greeted them with a bagpipers welcome. Sherba was born and raised in Vernon, where his family had an orchard. Once he was done grade school in the late ‘50s he left for north central BC and a job with BC Hydro. He and his brother-in-law Vic Litnosky were working as electrical contractors when they formed Northway Industrial Electric, based in Burns Lake, Fort Nelson and Prince George.