A poignant Friday night awaits Dubai Exiles when they host Dubai Hurricanes at The Sevens.
\nThe UAE Premiership fixture will form part of an evening dedicated to the memory of Jon Beeton, their former centre who died in August 2011 aged just 27.
\nThe UAE and Arabian Gulf international passed away after two months on life support, following an accident on a boat at a friend\u2019s birthday party.
\n\u201cWe held an amazing event in 2011 and now this is another chance to bring the rugby family together,\u201d said widow Tammy Edwards.
\nKick-off at The Sevens is at 18:00. A social event will then be held in the clubhouse from 20:00.
\nTickets are not required for either activity.
\nThe evening is also designed to raise awareness of the charity set up to memorialise Beeton.
\nFunds raised a decade ago helped RAYE, an organisation in Ethiopia, set up the Jon Beeton Scholarship. This has helped support three children \u2013 now teenagers – and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A poignant Friday night awaits Dubai Exiles when they host Dubai Hurricanes at The Sevens.
\nThe UAE Premiership fixture will form part of an evening dedicated to the memory of Jon Beeton, their former centre who died in August 2011 aged just 27.
\nThe UAE and Arabian Gulf international passed away after two months on life support, following an accident on a boat at a friend\u2019s birthday party.
\n\u201cWe held an amazing event in 2011 and now this is another chance to bring the rugby family together,\u201d said widow Tammy Edwards.
\nKick-off at The Sevens is at 18:00. A social event will then be held in the clubhouse from 20:00.
\nTickets are not required for either activity.
\nThe evening is also designed to raise awareness of the charity set up to memorialise Beeton.
\nFunds raised a decade ago helped RAYE, an organisation in Ethiopia, set up the Jon Beeton Scholarship. This has helped support three children \u2013 now teenagers \u2013 and their families.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154913,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154912\/revisions\/154913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}