diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index 193b34a60b..0db66c09fa 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -1858,15 +1858,14 @@ if(! function_exists('get_events')) {
 			$skip = 0;
 
 			foreach($r as &$rr) {
-				if($rr['adjust'])
-					$md = datetime_convert('UTC',$a->timezone,$rr['start'],'Y/m');
-				else
-					$md = datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$rr['start'],'Y/m');
-				$md .= "/#link-".$rr['id'];
+				$title = strip_tags(html_entity_decode(bbcode($rr['summary']),ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8'));
 
-				$title = substr(strip_tags(bbcode($rr['desc'])),0,32) . '... ';
-				if(! $title)
-					$title = t('[No description]');
+				if(strlen($title) > 35)
+					$title = substr($title,0,32) . '... ';
+
+				$description = substr(strip_tags(bbcode($rr['desc'])),0,32) . '... ';
+				if(! $description)
+					$description = t('[No description]');
 
 				$strt = datetime_convert('UTC',$rr['convert'] ? $a->timezone : 'UTC',$rr['start']);
 
@@ -1876,9 +1875,9 @@ if(! function_exists('get_events')) {
 				}
 
 				$today = ((substr($strt,0,10) === datetime_convert('UTC',$a->timezone,'now','Y-m-d')) ? true : false);
-
-				$rr['link'] = $md;
+				
 				$rr['title'] = $title;
+				$rr['description'] = $desciption;
 				$rr['date'] = day_translate(datetime_convert('UTC', $rr['adjust'] ? $a->timezone : 'UTC', $rr['start'], $bd_format)) . (($today) ?  ' ' . t('[today]') : '');
 				$rr['startime'] = $strt;
 				$rr['today'] = $today;
diff --git a/view/templates/events_reminder.tpl b/view/templates/events_reminder.tpl
index df163b8151..9aceb3f1cb 100644
--- a/view/templates/events_reminder.tpl
+++ b/view/templates/events_reminder.tpl
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <div id="event-wrapper" style="display: none;" ><div id="event-title">{{$event_title}}</div>
 <div id="event-title-end"></div>
 {{foreach $events as $event}}
-<div class="event-list" id="event-{{$event.id}}"> <a href="events/{{$event.link}}">{{$event.title}}</a> {{$event.date}} </div>
+<div class="event-list" id="event-{{$event.id}}"> <a class="cboxElement" href="events/?id={{$event.id}}">{{$event.title}}</a> - {{$event.date}} </div>
 {{/foreach}}
 </div>
 {{/if}}