The Patchogue Lioness Lions Club held its 21st annual Walk for a Guide Dog fundraiser on Sunday to raise money to support the training of guide dogs for the blind at the Guide Dog Foundation in Smithtown.

The event attracted about 60 people and raised more than $12,000, enough to support two guide dogs.

That brings more than $258,000 to the amount the Patchogue Lioness Lions Club has raised over the years, which is enough to support 43 guide dogs.

This year’s two-mile walk through downtown Patchogue started and ended at the Elks Club building on Oak Street and honored Manny Felouzis.

Felouzis is president and founder of the Patchogue-Medford High School Hall of Fame and a retired special education teacher with Eastern Suffolk BOCES.

“It’s a great honor to be recognized by such an important service organization in our community,” said Felouzis, who had about 20 family members and friends with him at  Sunday’s walk. “They’ve been leaders for so many years doing such great work for the community. It’s truly an honor that words cannot describe.”

Patchogue Lioness Lions Club president Lori Belmonte said Felouzis’s long history of civic involvement made him a fitting candidate to be this year’s Walk for a Guide Dog honoree.

“When I asked him for his bio, it was 20 pages long,” said Belmonte, who will be sworn in for another one-year term as Lioness Lions Club president at the club’s installation dinner on June 12. “He’s so busy honoring everybody else, it’s time for him to be honored.”

Among Felouzis’s other accolades was being named Eastern Suffolk BOCES Teacher of the Year in 1986 and being named, with his wife Peggy, as recipients of the Patchogue-Medford School District’s Superintendent’s Exemplary Award for outstanding volunteerism.

As this year’s Guide Dog Walk honoree Felouzis got to name the two puppies the club is sponsoring this year. He picked Riley, which was the last name of his maternal grandfather, and Raider, which is the name of the Patchogue-Medford High School sports teams.

It’s been a busy week for the Patchogue Lioness Lions Club.

On Monday, the club also sponsored a blood drive at the Patchogue Ambulance Company in memory of the late Joe Keyes, a Patchogue Village trustee who died in March.

The Patchogue Lioness Lions Club started in 1983 and has almost 30 members.It was named Patchogue’s “People of the Year” for 2024 by the Long Island Advance.

The club celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2023.