Another 'idol' Goes Home

Dear Abby: I teach at a small school. My grade-level teaching team consists of five teachers who work closely together. During the previous school year, one of my team members got engaged. This year, we have a new member on our team.

Here are the notable new releases this week.

Harrison Ford will reprise his role as Rick Deckard in the sequel to Blade Runner, the 1982 Ridley Scott classic, Alcon Entertainment has confirmed.

After learning that children are exploited for sex in Ohio, an art teacher at Hilliard Davidson High School couldn’t get the tragedy off his mind. “I really believe in the power of youth,” said Dan Gerdeman, a father of three, “and human trafficking is just taking that from so many kids.”

My first computer password was formed by combining the names of my son and two nephews. It wasn’t a word, but it sounded like one — which made it easy to recall. But then more babies were born, and I felt guilty about leaving them out of the password.

On a recent day at the Columbus Speech & Hearing Center, longtime volunteer Gretchen Chenenko poured a bit of hot chocolate into a cup for Parker Zink — hoping to motivate the toddler to say he wanted more. “I’m just waiting,” Chenenko said in recalling the therapy session, “and it’s going like thiisss — slow-ly.” A therapist watching Parker, who is on the autism spectrum, then nudged the boy: “Tell her,” she said.