diff --git a/app/views/projects/show.html.erb b/app/views/projects/show.html.erb
index a5f155058..c49b08b5d 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/show.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/projects/show.html.erb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 								<tr>
 									<td colspan="2" width="580px" >
 									<p class="info-break">
-										<%= h (truncate(e.event_description, :length => 240)) %>
+										<%= h(truncate(strip_tags(e.event_description).gsub(/&nbsp;/,' '), length: 30, omission:'...')) %>
 									</p></td>
 								</tr>
 								<tr>