diff --git a/app/helpers/events_helper.rb b/app/helpers/events_helper.rb
index 36d78bdf..71bd72ad 100644
--- a/app/helpers/events_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/events_helper.rb
@@ -61,7 +61,11 @@ module EventsHelper
                     tags: %w[p br h1 h2 h3 h4 table tr th td ul ol li a strong
                              b em i sub sup],
                     attributes: %w[href]
-    Kramdown::Document.new(desc, input: :html, line_width: line_width)
-                      .to_kramdown
+    result = Kramdown::Document.new(desc, input: :html, line_width: line_width)
+                               .to_kramdown
+    # Remove extraneous line feeds
+    result.gsub(/\n\n+/, '
+
+').tr('\w\\', '').html_safe
   end
 end